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

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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
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Journalist
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Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
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Liberal
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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.
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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
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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.
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The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.
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We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where their mouth is...We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way.
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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.
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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.
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I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
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We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
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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.
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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
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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.
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Every President hates the Press.
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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.
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You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.
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