63 Quotes by Theodore White

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

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

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.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago – a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

Those 40 or 50 national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps – they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

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

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

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