All Theodore White Quotes
- I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers… Ago
- 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… Burdened
- 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… Adjust
- Politics in America is the binding secular religion. America
- Power in America today is control of the means of communication. America
- You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get. Generosity
- 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… Authority
- 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. American
- When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend. Down
- With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. American
- He who is created by television can be destroyed by television. Created
- 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… Accepted
- Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men. All
- 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… Agenda
- 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… Admirer
- 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… Bus
- There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. American
- If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. Go
- A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward. Agree
- 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… Any
- The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too. Change
- I class myself as a manual laborer. Class
- There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. Copies
- The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. All
- The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Democracy