"People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure."

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I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

— Gwen Ifill