Theodore White
Theodore White
Theodore Harold Whitewas an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1980 presidential elections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth6 May 1915
CountryUnited States of America
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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
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The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It deter- mines what people will talk and think about-an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
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Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.
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To know everything there is to know about one subject is the secret of happiness.
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It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting to be reported.
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His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.
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When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.
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I'd get into a room and disappear into the woodwork. Now the rooms are so crowded with reporters getting behind-the-scenes stories that nobody can get behind-the-scenes stories.
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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.
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He is like a good prewar house-solidly built. They don't build them that way anymore. He's also been repainted several times.
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Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
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The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
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I class myself as a manual laborer.