Helen Thomas

You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.