Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf. "
Helen Thomas
Related Quotes:
" The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal. "
Helen Thomas
" I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. "
Helen Thomas
" I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist. "
Helen Thomas
" I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. "
Helen Thomas
" Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding. "
Helen Thomas
" War makes strange bedfellows. "
Helen Thomas
" The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand. "
Helen Thomas
" Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time. "
Helen Thomas
" 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.' "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" We won't really know what will happen until it happens. "
Helen Thomas
" I don't think there are any rude questions. "
Helen Thomas
" I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible. "
Helen Thomas
" Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names. "
Helen Thomas
" I'm of Arab background. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar. "
Helen Thomas
" I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. "
Helen Thomas
" We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" 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. "
Helen Thomas
" We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous. "
Helen Thomas
" You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun. "
Helen Thomas