The best Quotes by Helen Thomas

We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

Journalism

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Jimmy Carter

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

Dick Cheney

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For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.

Barack Obama - January 28, 2013 - Miami Heat visit the White House

Beginning

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Change Motivation

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Barack Obama

Germany Berlin

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

Barack Obama - A Promised Land

Michelle Obama Book Dedications & Preambles

These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Barack Obama - White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013

Funny Politician Quotes

As tragic as these past few weeks have been, they offer an opportunity for us to all work together to tackle them, to take them on, to change America and make it live up to its highest ideals.

Barack Obama - June 2020

Death of George Floyd

More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing.

Barack Obama - May 2020

Coronavirus

I'm so proud to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States.

Barack Obama - April 2020

Joe Biden US Elections

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama

Money

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness & Mercy Enemies & Opponents Names

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy - June 1963

Justice Air

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

Revolution

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Future Change

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

Leaders

Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

John F. Kennedy - Inaugural Address

USA

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

John F. Kennedy

Freedom 1963 Berlin

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

John F. Kennedy

War Volkstrauertag

If anybody really wants to shoot the President of the United States, it is not a very difficult job - all one has to do is get a high building some day with a telescopic rifle, and there is nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt on the President's life.

John F. Kennedy - 1963

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

John F. Kennedy

Sun

As a native Washingtonian, I am well aware that childhood obesity is a real problem in our nation's capital.

Dan Snyder

Washington, D.C.

The Washington Bullets are changing their name. They don't want their team to be associated with crime. From now on, they'll just be known as the Bullets.

Jay Leno

Washington, D.C.Washington Wizards

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Robert Orben

Washington, D.C.

I call Washington "the city of the perishable".

Nancy Pelosi (as Speaker of the US House of Representatives)

Washington, D.C.

Let me give you a little bit of free advice. DC is all about realtionships.

Kimble Hookstraten in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 9

Washington, D.C.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

Jennifer Lawrence

Kentucky

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn’t have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

Andrew Jackson

Kentucky

You can't be an a-shole and a losing coach. In Kentucky, baby, winning cures all.

Opal Lowry in Hoops - Season 1 Episode 1

Kentucky

I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.

Nicole Scherzinger

Kentucky

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Kentucky - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Kentucky

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

USA Independence Day

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Jimmy Carter

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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter

Nature & Environment

He is a coward. A real man wouldn't lie to his supporters. He lost his election, and he lost big. I know it. He knows it, and deep down, I think most Republicans know.

Dick Cheney - August 2022

Donald Trump US Elections

In our nation's 246 year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. There is nothing more important Liz will ever do than lead the effort to make sure Donald Trump is never again near the Oval Office.

Dick Cheney - August 2022

Donald Trump Liz Cheney

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Dick Cheney

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States.

Dick Cheney - June 1998

Oil Gas

Disappearances are bread-and-butter to journalists.

Diana Gabaldon in Outlander -

Journalism

How does President Obama like his coffee? Like himself? Weak?

Zach Galifianakis in Between Two Ferns

Barack Obama

We went from a shitty team to one of the all-time best dynasties. All you needed was one little match to start that whole fire.

Michael Jordan in The Last Dance - Episode 10

Chicago Bulls

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Conservation & Environment Protection

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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