Top 65 Quotes by Helen Thomas

About Helen Thomas

These are some quotes by American author Helen Thomas Journalist, who lived between August 4, 1920 and July 20, 2013.

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

Helen Thomas

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Helen Thomas

It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.

It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.

Helen Thomas

War makes strange bedfellows.

War makes strange bedfellows.

Helen Thomas

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Helen Thomas

I had a lot of fun bantering back and forth with Kennedy. But for ease and comfort, it would be Gerald Ford. He was a down-home type. I came from the Midwest and he came from the Midwest. He was nonaggressive and kindly.

Helen Thomas

Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.

Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.

Helen Thomas

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

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

Helen Thomas

The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding.

The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding.

Helen Thomas

Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.

Helen Thomas

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