Quotes from Alex Wagner

I don't know what other people think about me being the boss, but I really like a collaborative work environment, and I don't have a problem being at the head of that.

Uber has changed the world - and my NYC life! Its easy, quick and - if youre not caught in a snowstorm pretty reasonable.

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.

My mother grew up during the sunset of British colonialism and attended English schools, where she was not allowed to be called Tin Swe Thant, but was instead required to have a Western 'school name.'

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.

Politics remind us of the big divide between different parts of the country, but also that we all have to run this ship together. Were all married to one another and there is no divorce happening.

Network reporters dont go to the field anymore. The local news has been gutted.

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.

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.

I have a cat that I'm obsessed with. His name is Rooster and he's an orange Bengal. He is one of America's great cats. We found Rooster at a rescue organization, and within minutes it was obvious - that's our cat.

Politicians dont expect the argument of the day to infiltrate restaurants, but of course they do, because were all human beings.

Almost no one I came across said they were going to vote because someone, anyone, but especially Joe Biden, had made their heart sing.

There has always been a thawing-out-of-something-frozen quality to a potential Joe Biden candidacy, an understanding that the man himself might be out of step with these times, but that anachronism might serve him - and the Democratic Party -well.

Whether were eating tacos at a roadside stand outside of Houston, or having barbecue somewhere down south, or beautiful fried eggs in New York City, theyre regional specialties that remind us of the history of this country, and the bounty it has to offer.

The general trend in television is to be more transparent, and that is especially true for women: to not pretend that we wake up with our hair in perfect shellacked bobs.

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find those people in the past. I could find this mythic tribe of elders who would ground me in a story that was irrefutable, undeniable, that was unique and my own, and it would satisfy all my cravings.

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.

Sometimes a young person is so intent on proving themselves that they don't actually listen to people who know things.

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able to poke fun at themselves - and the gravitas of their position.

What is nearly certain is that Donald Trump did not consider himself a feminist in the way-back 80s, nor was he making these hiring decisions, particularly, to shatter any glass ceilings.

But then I realized, I think maybe we're too preoccupied with the past and too preoccupied with the idea that nationalism and sense of identity belongs to the soil, to the land, and isn't somehow within ourselves and among each other.

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.

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.

Today I was trying to eat a beignet on camera. You cant do that. You cant even eat a beignet on a date, let alone in front of an audience of a million people. I still havent learned my lesson.