Quote

I don't think there are any rude questions.

Helen Thomas

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
Author
Journalist
Writer
Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
Rude
Questions
Think
Thinking

More quotes by Helen Thomas

Image
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.
Helen Thomas
Image
I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.
Helen Thomas
Image
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
Image
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.
Helen Thomas
Image
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
Image
We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
Helen Thomas
Image
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.
Helen Thomas
Image
I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
Helen Thomas
Image
Life is too short to drink the house wine.
Helen Thomas
Image
You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
Helen Thomas
Image
I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.
Helen Thomas
Image
All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.
Helen Thomas
Image
Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.
Helen Thomas
Image
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.
Helen Thomas
Image
I'm of Arab background.
Helen Thomas
Image
I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.
Helen Thomas
Image
Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.
Helen Thomas
Image
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.
Helen Thomas
Image
When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
Helen Thomas
Image
I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
Helen Thomas