Quotes Library

February 28 (Bonus Quote)

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

Theodore H. White (1915-1986), American journalist, writer, Time, 19 November 1984, Jay p. 387

How much money do you have to beg for to get yourself re-elected?

What would White have to say today, after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. F.E.C. (2010)?

April 25, 2025

8 months ago

Government…is simply not the channel through which men’s noblest impulses are to be realized.

May 23, 2025

7 months ago

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

July 5, 2025

6 months ago

There is but one way for a newspaperman to look at a politician, and that is down.

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