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Helen Thomas Quotes

1920–2013 United States

Helen Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was an American reporter who worked for the Hearst News Service, as a dean of the White House press corps, as a White House correspondent, and King Features Syndicate columnist. Thomas covered every President of the United States from John F.

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

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

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

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

This is the worst president ever. He is the worst president in all of American history.

I mean, they (Obama admistration) have a guy like Dennis Ross at the White House now, who's always been a part of the Israel lobby. They put him in charge of the whole Muslim world.

I paid the price for that, but it was worth it, to speak the truth. The Zionists have to understand that's their country, too. Palestinians were there long before any European Zionists.

Not a secret. It’s very open.

I don't speechify. I know the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that's what I ask. But they get mad at the straight line. I just want to ask a tough question.

I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Helen Thomas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.