#pre

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#always #anybody #attitude #been #done

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american people #belong #books #covering #every

Every President hates the Press. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#hates #president #press

I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#could #covered #credibility #decided #govern

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is another liar... I think he'd like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#cheney #country #day #dick cheney #does

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

— Helen Thomas

#american history #bush #ever #george #george w

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. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#american #american people #believe #democracy #endure

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. ↗

— Edward Albee

#happen #immediately #impressions #know #loose

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#balance #beyond #carry #confines #considering

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them. ↗

— Roland Allen

#apostles #apprehension #cried #illumination #intellectual