Theodore White Quotes

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• I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers…
• Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved…
• Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas…
• Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
• Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
• You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.
• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being…
• I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
• When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.
• With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
• He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.
• History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether…
• Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.
• The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained…
• Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than…
• When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans…
• There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
• If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.
• A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.
• Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of…

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