Theodore White Quotes
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If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
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The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.
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There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.
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Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile.
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With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
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The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
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I class myself as a manual laborer.
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Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
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There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
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Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
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Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
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For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.
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When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.
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Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
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Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.
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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
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With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
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I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
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Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.
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You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
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When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.
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The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.
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