Theodore White
Journalist
1915-05-06
Quotes by Theodore White
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The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
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When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend.
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
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I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
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A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
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Asked why he robbed banks, the notorious American bank robber Willie Sutton is reputed to have remarked, Because that's where the money is.
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