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.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis.

If you look at my CV, just about everything I have done has come through a publicly funded institution; it is a career entirely built on that sort of support.