Helen Thomas Quotes
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Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.
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If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.
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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.
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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'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right.
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Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.
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You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
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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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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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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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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.
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All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
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Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.
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I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.
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I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history
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You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.
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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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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.
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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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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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Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly.
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But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
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We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.
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The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.
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We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.
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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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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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We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.
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If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?
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