132 Quotes by Helen Thomas

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you’re dead, you’re dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don’t go to hell.

American journalism’s crazy old aunt in the attic.

You don’t spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

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

Don’t let the politicians chip away at the New Deal and the Great Society programs like Social Security and Medicare, that puts a floor beyond which the elderly, the sick, the powerless do not starve or lack for medicine or shelter.

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring ’em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don’t blow it.

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

It’s time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

We’ve got to break through the wall of secrecy. It’s America’s fate.