A biography for Alex Wagnerhasn’t been written yet.
“Fox Newss unique blend of xenophobia and division has always been popular and highly lucrative.”
“Granted, a lot has been made of Hillary Clintons sense of humor - her laugh is shrill, too many of her jokes have seemed too prepared for far too long.”
“Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced in the drawing of congressional districts, each states number of Electoral College votes and the application of civil rights laws, including the Voting Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act.”
“Burma - and let me be clear, it's also known as Myanmar - and the reason a lot of Burmese and Burmese exiles call it Burma: It's a form of political resistance to the ruling military junta.”
“It's not fun telling people they have to turn their stories in. But you can't actually have a creative work environment if there are no rules and there's no structure.”
“Politicians dont expect the argument of the day to infiltrate restaurants, but of course they do, because were all human beings.”
“There are videos I used to take at home, pretending to be a newscaster, interviewing the teapot or my house cat.”
“To some Americans, there was no possible way I could naturally be the daughter of this white American; I had to be from someplace else.”
“The other piece about tracing your ancestry is it makes you slightly more empathetic about what happens today. As we seem to have lost a certain sense of humanity for and among each other.”
“When we think of community, we think of some sort of nebulous, faraway group of people rather than the men and the women who touch our daily lives.”
“I think that people who find themselves at executive level positions or get really successful forget that there is nothing they have done that wasn't the result of a lot of other peoples hard work.”
“To be counted in the census is to be both seen and supported.”
“When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.”
“That's sort of part of the American ethic - is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn't define us. And most certainly, that was the case with my mother, who was an immigrant to America.”
“It's amazing how many different dresses you need for television. When I first started, it was a really steep curve to get to the point where I felt like I finally had enough clothes.”
“In DC, it's really edgy to listen to Kanye West or Jay-Z, and it's a thing to know who Azzedine Alaia is - you know what I mean? But I do care about issues, and I was really political in high school, always marching.”
“We hear stories from our parents and our grandparents about what life was like in the old country or wherever they came from. They are biblical. They are truth. There could be no alternate history.”
“There's a lot of 'ancestor tourism': and people will go back to Ireland to touch ground and have a pint in the same place where their forefathers once did whatever their forefathers did, and there's a real strong idea that we connect to the place once we get there.”
“My career has definitely zigzagged, and that is euphemistic.”