63 Quotes by Theodore White

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile....

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.