Theodore White Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.”

“Politics in America is the binding secular religion.”

“There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”

“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.”

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

“With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.”

“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.”

“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.”