Helen Thomas President Quotations

I can remember the morning after President Nixon won re-election in 1972. His chief of staff, H.R. Haldeman, called a Cabinet meeting and told the members: 'You are all a bunch of burned-out volcanoes;' and asked for their resignations.

I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants...The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

We are the only institution in our society that can question a president on a regular basis and make him accountable. Otherwise, he could be king.

I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

Every President hates the Press.