Helen Thomas Quotes

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When you‘re in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

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I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

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The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that’s what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

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In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is – a nice, decent man… in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

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Everyone with a cell phone thinks they’re a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they’re a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what’s far out and what’s reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

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Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago.

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I don’t think there are any rude questions.

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Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

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I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring ’em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don’t blow it.

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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

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Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

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I’m covering the worst president in American history.

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But when will our leaders learn – war is not the answer.

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I think I’ll work all my life. When you’re having fun, why stop having fun?

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I was in Independence, Missouri when Johnson signed the Medicare bill, with Truman standing there. Truman had first proposed Medicare, but couldn’t get it through.

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We don’t go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it’s a joy to go to work every day.

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Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can’t win, but they may be proven wrong.

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All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I’m not so certain he was nice. It’s hard for me to think of anyone as ‘nice’ when I hear him say ‘The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.’

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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred – by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

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I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: ‘You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;’ and asked for their resignations.

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Every President hates the Press.

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I have a background and an understanding of what’s happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don’t have, because there’s been no interest.

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You don’t spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

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I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

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I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, ‘Who do I hate today?’

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This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

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War makes strange bedfellows.

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