It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.
Gwen IfillIt's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.
Gwen IfillWe used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.
Gwen IfillBecause I would never work for a niche publication or a niche program on television and because I am a journalist and not an opinion person, my job is to try to see how many different points of view I can represent or how. It's not even a question of who you don't offend because you are always going to offend somebody. The question is how can you get people to listen to the information you have to present.
Gwen Ifill