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" We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits. "

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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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" 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. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family. "

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

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" I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist. "

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" When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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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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" I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press. "

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