132 Quotes by Helen Thomas

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

You didn't tell a lie, you just left a big hole in the truth.

Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history

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

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 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.