Helen Thomas

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

“We won't really know what will happen until it happens.”

“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.”

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

“Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.”

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

“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.”

“The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.”

“Presidential power was overruled by the high bench in July 1974, when President Nixon was ordered to turn over some audio tapes of his White House conversations, including the 'smoking gun' tape of June 23, 1972, that revealing the Watergate cover up.”

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

“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.”

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

“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 don't think there are any rude questions.”

“I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.”

“Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.”

“To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.”

“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.”

“I'm covering the worst president in 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.”