Quotes by Helen Thomas

About Helen Thomas:

Helen Amelia Thomas was an American author and news service reporter, member of the White House press corps and opinion columnist. She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International (UPI) for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager. She was a columnist for Hearst Newspapers from 2000 to 2010, writing on national affairs and the White House. She covered the administrations of eleven U.S. presidents—from the final years of the Eisenhower administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

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Every President hates the Press.

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

Helen Thomas

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 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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As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

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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 exe...

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

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The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Helen Thomas

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

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I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

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All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homel...

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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

Helen Thomas

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

Helen Thomas

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

Helen Thomas

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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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.

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Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.

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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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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 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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Author Bio

  • NameHelen Thomas
  • DescriptionAmerican author and journalist
  • AliasesHelen Amelia Thomas
  • BornAugust 4, 1920
  • DiedJuly 20, 2013
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Writer