Quotes from Helen Thomas

George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

You cannot criticize Israel in this country (USA) and survive

Q: What do Jesus and Nicole Brown Simpson have in common? A: They were both killed by the Joooooooose.

Proof of the power of the press is the fear of the press by the government. Martha Gellhorn as quoted by Helen Thomas

Anybody in public life is well aware of how important the judgments of the press are. I'm firmly convinced that if the good Lord had made the world today, he would have spent six days creating the heavens and earth and all the living creatures upon it. But on the seventh day, he would not have rested. He would have had to justify it to Helen Thomas. (Gerald Ford as quoted by Helen Thomas.)

Early on in Carter's presidential bid, I tried to cover a Bible study class that he taught in Plains, Georgia. All of the male reporters were allowed in, but when I tried to enter, a man standing at the door blocked my way and told me ladies were not allowed in. 'I'm no lady, I'm a reporter,' I told him, and he stepped aside for me.

Today, because of the immediacy of the live TV appearance with the direct quote, the presidency seems hamstrung with governing by polls and turning the chief executive into an actor. And the world is his stage.

It's become the incredible shrinking presidency in terms of access, and in my opinion, we are all being shortchanged.

Most people think of the mind as located in the head, but the latest findings in physiology suggest that the mind doesn't really dwell in the brain but travels the whole body on caravans of hormones and enzymes, busily making sense of the compound wonders we catalogue as touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision.

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

I love my work, and I think that I was so lucky to pick a profession where it's a joy to go to work every day.

We got the vote, which we should've been born with, in 1920. Everything we've had to struggle for - it's ridiculous.

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

You're only as good as your last story.

If we lose our title of "land of the free," what have we got?

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.