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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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Arab

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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.
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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?
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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.
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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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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
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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.
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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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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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Get the hell out of Palestine.
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If we lose our title of land of the free, what have we got?
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I don't think there are any rude questions.
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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 in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.
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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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Every President hates the Press.
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You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.
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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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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
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