Helen Thomas People Quotations

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.

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.

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.

Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.

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.

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.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

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.