Helen Thomas Quotes

• I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Tough Questions, Literature

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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

  Jobs, Leader, Answers

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• La gente nunca sabrá lo difícil que es conseguir información, sobre todo si está encerrada tras puertas oficiales donde, si por los políticos fuera, estamparían "alto secreto" en el color de las paredes.

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, Color, Doors

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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.

  Helen Thomas

  Kings, President, Our Society

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• I don't think there are any rude questions.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, Rude

  "Corps Issues". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. May 28, 2006.

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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

  Reality, Thinking, Dedication

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• Life is too short to drink the house wine.

  Helen Thomas

  Inspirational, Life Is Too Short, Wine

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

  Helen Thomas

  Truth, Lying, Holes

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• You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

  Helen Thomas

  Personas, Democracia

  "Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas On Bush and the State of the Media". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 8, 2004.

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• Don't let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

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  Medicine, Elderly, Sick

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• 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?

  Helen Thomas

  Privilege, Born, Should

  "'What Else Should a Reporter BE' But a Liberal?" by Warner Todd Huston, www.newsbusters.org. January 21, 200.

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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

  Blow, Thinking, President

  "Thank You, Mr. President: Helen Thomas at the White House" by Ray Richmond, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 14, 2008.

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

  Helen Thomas

  President, Rail, Turf

  "Hearst" Newspaper Column, October 15, 2003.

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• 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

  Office, President, Privilege

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

  Helen Thomas

  Sionista

  "‘I’m anti-Zionist,’ Helen Thomas declared, in twilight of long career" by Philip Weiss, mondoweiss.net. July 21, 2013.

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• We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.

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  Wall, White, Racism

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

  Helen Thomas

  Country, Israel, Criticize

  "Helen Thomas: 'Baloney. I've Never Been Anti-Semitic. I'm a Semite'" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 12, 2010.

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• Si nos preocupamos por los hijos, los nietos, las generaciones futuras, tenemos que asegurarnos de que no se conviertan en carne de cañón del futuro.

  Helen Thomas

  Children, Needs, Generations

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• Este es el peor Presidente de la historia. Él [George W. Bush] es el peor Presidente de toda la historia americana.

  Helen Thomas

  Usa, President, Literature

  "CBS’s Smith: ‘Legendary’ Helen Thomas Has Done ‘Extraordinary Work’" by Kyle Drennen, www.newsbusters.org. August 14, 2008.

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• We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

  Helen Thomas

  Creer, Pueblo, Democracia

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

  Helen Thomas

  Wall, White, House

  "Helen Thomas' school scraps award over 'Zionists' remark". www.cnn.com. December 5, 2010.

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• 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.

  Helen Thomas

  Stress, Trying, This Too Shall Pass

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• 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.

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  War, People, Giving

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• Lamento profundamente los comentarios que hice la semana pasada sobre israelíes y palestinos. No reflejan mi sincera convicción de que la paz sólo llegará a Oriente Medio cuando todas las partes reconozcan la necesidad del respeto mutuo y la tolerancia. Ojalá llegue pronto ese día.

  Helen Thomas

  Regret, Party, Heart

  "Helen Thomas 'Retires' After Anti-Israeli Jew Remarks". "The Two-way", www.npr.org. June 7, 2010.

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

  Helen Thomas

  Gun, Democracy, Literature

  "The Daily Show", June 27, 2006.

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