Helen Thomas Quotes

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

I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

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.

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.

This is the worst President ever. He [George W. Bush] is the worst President in all of American history.

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.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?

I'm not anti-Jewish; I'm anti-Zionist.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

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

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

I don't think there are any rude questions.

Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious decisions they do that send young people to war.

I'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right.

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.

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

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

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

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

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.

Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.

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.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

Get the hell out of Palestine.

You're only as good as your last story.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

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

When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.

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.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

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.

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.

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.

Every President hates the Press.

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

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

The presidential news conference is indispensable because it is the only forum in our society where you can be questioned on a regular basis and held accountable.

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.

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

We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

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.

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

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

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

I'm of Arab background.

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.