Quotes About Theodore White

The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

The late author Theodore White wrote that "the Immigration Act of 1965 changed all previous patterns, and in so doing, probably changed the future of America. . . . [I]t was noble, revolutionary—and probably the most thoughtless of the many acts of the Great Society."6 As a result, in subsequent years immigrants have been poorer, less educated, and less skilled than those who preceded them—a pattern that continues today.7