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" 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. "

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

" 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

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

Helen Thomas

" Maybe the Jefferson case will give members of Congress second thoughts the next time they get ready to legislate away the rights of ordinary Americans. "

Helen Thomas

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

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

" 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. "

Helen Thomas

" 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. "

Helen Thomas

" I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. "

Helen Thomas

" I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. "

Helen Thomas

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

Helen Thomas

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

Helen Thomas

" I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work. "

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

" I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die. "

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

" I'm covering the worst president in American history. "

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

" Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur 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. "

Helen Thomas

" It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business. "

Helen Thomas

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

Helen Thomas

" We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press. "

Helen Thomas

" Every President hates the Press. "

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

" 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. "

Helen Thomas

" I don't think a tough question is disrespectful. "

Helen Thomas