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Theodore White quotes

American Journalist May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986

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A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party - and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy. Theodore White
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have. Theodore White
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. Theodore White
Theodore White quote: "When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's..."
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he's nobody's friend. Theodore White
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. Theodore White
Theodore White quote: "The best politics for any president is to be a good president."
The best politics for any president is to be a good president. Theodore White
Theodore White quote: "His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the..."
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen. Theodore White
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. Theodore White
The development of an image is a mysterious thing: once a public figure has been cast in a public role, it is almost impossible for him to change the character. It is as if someone has assembled personality traits into a convenient pattern, no writer ever re-examines it: it is easier to use the accepted pattern. Theodore White
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. Theodore White
Theodore White quote: "There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to..."
There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign. Theodore White
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. 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. Theodore White
The first and most essential quality of a presidential candidate, as Averell Harriman once pointed out, is that he should lust for the job - he should want it more than all things, with a passion surpassing all emotion and probably even all principle. Theodore White
Theodore White quote: "There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy..."
There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful. Theodore White

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