Theodore H. White Quotes

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

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

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When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

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Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

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A genuine primary is a fight within the family of the party—and, like any family fight, is apt to be more bitter and leave more enduring wounds than battle with the November enemy.

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The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

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Liberalism: for every complicated problem there exists both an intellectual and a moral solution and they coincide.

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Johnson's instinct for power is as primordial as a salmon's going upstream to spawn.
Of Lyndon Johnson

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The 'smoke-filled room' as political reality is now as dead as Prohibition.

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Those forty or fifty national correspondents who had followed Kennedy since the beginning of his electoral exertions into the November days had become more than a press corps — they had become his friends and, some of them, his most devoted admirers.

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Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them - this is of the essence of leadership.

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America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

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Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

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History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.

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