63 Quotes by Theodore White

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet..

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.

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.

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.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

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

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.