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.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.