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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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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
Author
Journalist
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Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
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Reporters
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Liberal
Privilege
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Dies
Born
Else
Truth
Reporter

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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.
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You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.
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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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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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Get the hell out of Palestine.
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I don't think there are any rude questions.
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Everybody is in the pocket of the Israeli lobbies.
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Life is too short to drink the house wine.
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People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.
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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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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.
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The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
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But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
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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'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.
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Every President hates the Press.
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I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.
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We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.
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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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I think Obama is handling his image very well, but I think he lacks boldness.
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