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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.
- Helen Thomas
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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.
- Helen Thomas
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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.
- Helen Thomas
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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.
- Helen Thomas
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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.
- Helen Thomas
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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.
- Helen Thomas
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#Time
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#Women
This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.
- Helen Thomas
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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
- Helen Thomas
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The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.
- Helen Thomas
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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.
- Helen Thomas
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#Poetry
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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
- Helen Thomas
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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
- Helen Thomas
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Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
- Helen Thomas
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You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.
- Helen Thomas
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Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.
- Helen Thomas
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It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.
- Helen Thomas
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#Journalism
#Me
#People
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I'm covering the worst president in American history.
- Helen Thomas
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#History
#President
#Worst
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
- Helen Thomas
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#Business
#News
#Unexpected
#You
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.
- Helen Thomas
#Doing
#Never
#Privilege
#Respect
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War makes strange bedfellows.
- Helen Thomas
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#War
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
- Helen Thomas
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We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
- Helen Thomas
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