Helen Thomas Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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  Nice, Past, Men

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

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  Gun, Democracy, Literature

  "The Daily Show", June 27, 2006.

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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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  Gun, White, June

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• Every President hates the Press.

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  Hate, President, Literature

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• I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

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  Success, Thinking, Heaven

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

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  Giving Up, Giving, Want

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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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  Fun, Home, Comfort

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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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  Age, President, Politics

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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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  Fun, Thinking, Having Fun

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• 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.

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  Thinking, White, House

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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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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  Thinking, Joy, Lucky

  "50 Years of Tough Questions and 'Thank You, Mr. President'" by David Stout, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 2013.

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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.

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  War, Moving, Order

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• American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

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  Crazy, Aunt, Politics

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• I'm of Arab background.

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  Backgrounds

  "Written by a former editor of the Wall Street Journal: 'The propagandists for the Israel Lobby, who occupy the Wall Street Journal editorial page while pretending to be journalists, are determined to remove Helen Thomas from the annals of journalism.'", rebrn.com. June 16, 2010.

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

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  Hate, Years, Wake Up

  "Doubting Thomas Was Hearst's Big Mistake", www.realclearpolitics.com. June 14, 2010.

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• We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.

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  Wall, Fate, Break Through

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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

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  War, Leader, Answers

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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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  Independence, Bills, Firsts

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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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  Erosion, Presidential, Stronger

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• Get the hell out of Palestine.

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  Liberal Media, Hell, Stupid Liberal

  "Helen Thomas Apologizes for Saying Jews Should 'Get the Hell Out of Palestine'". www.foxnews.com. June 4, 2010.

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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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  Morning, Volcanoes, President

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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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  Rights, Giving, Ordinary

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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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  White, House, President

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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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  Daughter, Mother, Years

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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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  Fighting, Names, Rights

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