Helen Thomas Quotes

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Helen Thomas

Profession : Journalist

Birth : August 4, 1920

War makes strange bedfellows.

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

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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

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I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

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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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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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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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If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

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I'm covering the worst president in American history.

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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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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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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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You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

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Every President hates the Press.

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

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

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We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

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

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It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

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