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“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.”
-- Theodore White

#Freedom #Nerd #Democracy
“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.”
-- Theodore White

#Courage #Thinking Of You #People
“If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet..”
-- Theodore White

#Business #Planets
“Power in America today is control of the means of communication.”
-- Theodore White

#Communication #Mean #Power
“With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.”
-- Theodore White

#Logic #Ends #Process
“He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.”
-- Theodore White

#Television
“History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.”
-- Theodore White

#Memories #History #Generations
“Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.”
-- Theodore White

#Men #Power #Dignity
“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.”
-- Theodore White

#Party #Thinking #Law
“Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps - they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.”
-- Theodore White

#Friends #November #Admirer
“When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.”
-- Theodore White

#Song #Night #Soldier
“There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”
-- Theodore White

#War #Usa #Presidential
“If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.”
-- Theodore White

#Years #History #Luck
“When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, heâ€™s nobodyâ€™s friend.”
-- Theodore White

#Typewriters
“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.”
-- Theodore White

#Art #Writing #Thinking
“For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.”
-- Theodore White

#Men #Voice #Lucky
“A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.”
-- Theodore White

#Running #Believe #Water
“Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.”
-- Theodore White

#Bravery #Greek #Grace
“The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.”
-- Theodore White

#Lying #Rain #Night
“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.”
-- Theodore White

#Years #Cities #Two
“Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.”
-- Theodore White

#Moving #Responsibility #Men
“Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile....”
-- Theodore White

#Long #Political #Too Late
“You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.”
-- Theodore White

#Generosity #Giving
“Politics in America is the binding secular religion.”
-- Theodore White

#America #Political #Secular
“Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.”
-- Theodore White

#Ghetto #Reality #Men
“A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.”
-- Theodore White

#Wise #Men #President
“The American dream is not over. America is an adventure.”
-- Theodore White

#Dream #4th Of July #Adventure
“The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.”
-- Theodore White

#Weather #Decision #President
“I class myself as a manual laborer.”
-- Theodore White

#Class #Laborers
“There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.”
-- Theodore White

#Two #Editors #Kind

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