Helen Thomas quotes - page 2

I don't think there are any rude questions. (Helen Thomas)
Every President hates the Press. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't speechify. I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that's what I ask. But they get mad at the straight line. I just want to ask a tough question. View quote
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It's the arrogance of power. "We're in charge. It's our White House. What the hell are you doing here?" Basically toward the Press. "How dare you question anything we do?" They don't understand that the presidential news conference is the only forum in our society where a president can be questioned. If he's not questioned, he can rule by edict; by government order. He can be a monarch. He can be a dictator, and who is to find out? No. He should be questioned and he should always be able to willingly reply and answer to all questions because these aren't our questions. They're the people's questions. View quote
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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. View quote
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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Helen Thomas)
I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist. View quote
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I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive. View quote
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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. View quote
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; David Nesenoff. View quote
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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. View quote
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Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm covering the worst president in American history. View quote
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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. View quote
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People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls. (Helen Thomas)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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