Theodore White

The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.

— Theodore White

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

— Theodore White

I class myself as a manual laborer.

— Theodore White

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

— Theodore White

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

— Theodore White

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.

— Theodore White

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

— Theodore White

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.

— Theodore White

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

— Theodore White

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

— Theodore White

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

— Theodore White

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

— Theodore White

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but…

— Theodore White

“Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.”

— Theodore White

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

— Theodore White

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted…

— Theodore White

I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that…

— Theodore White

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can…

— Theodore White

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody…

— Theodore White

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back…

— Theodore White

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long,…

— Theodore White

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history…

— Theodore White

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had…

— Theodore White

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political…

— Theodore White

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

— Theodore White

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

— Theodore White

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

— Theodore White

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

— Theodore White

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

— Theodore White

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when…

— Theodore White

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence…

— Theodore White

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon…

— Theodore White

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for…

— Theodore White