63 Quotes by Theodore White

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

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.

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

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.

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.

His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.