Theodore White

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

— Theodore White

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

— Theodore White

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

— Theodore White

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

— Theodore White

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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

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

— Theodore White

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

— Theodore White

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I class myself as a manual laborer. ↗

— Theodore White

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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

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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. ↗

— Theodore White

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