Frasi di Helen Thomas

Helen Thomas è stata una giornalista, opinionista e scrittrice statunitense di origine libanese.

✵ 4. Agosto 1920 – 20. Luglio 2013
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Helen Thomas: Frasi in inglese

“This is the worst president ever. He is the worst president in all of American history.”

About George W. Bush, said in Los Angeles while at a Society for Professional Journalism banquet event.
Published in an article by John Bogert in the Torrance, California Daily Breeze (19 January 2003).
According to Thomas this was supposed to be off the record. The reporter (assumedly Bogert) asked for her autograph after she spoke at the event. As she signed his copy of her book, he said to her, "You look sad?" She responded by saying "Well I am. I'm covering the worst president..."
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).

“Get into the game!”

Advice to up-and-coming journalists, quoted from " Calling Helen Thomas http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200602/calling.helen.thomas.htm" in Saudi Aramco World (Vol. 57, No. 2) March/April 2006

“I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon.”

2010-06-04
Veteran White House Reporter Helen Thomas Retires After Israel Remarks
Democracy Now
Pacifica Radio
2010-06-08
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/8/veteran_white_house_reporter_helen_thomas
2010-11-03

“I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal till the day I die.”

Thomas's views unsettled W.H. press http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38236.html#ixzz0qJTX4XSu (2006)

“We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate.”

Phone interview on The Majority Report, 2004-04-02

“We were never hyphenated as Arab-Americans. We were American, and I have always rejected the hyphen and I believe all assimilated immigrants should not be designated ethnically. Or separated, of course, by race, or creed either. These are trends that ever try to divide us as a people.”

As quoted in America: what my country means to me by 150 Americans from all walks of life http://books.google.com/?id=h4qpzo7yNxEC&pg=PA238&dq=tripoli+%22helen+thomas%22&q=tripoli%20%22helen%20thomas%22My (2002), Simon & Schuster, p. 238.

“All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.”

Hearst newspaper column, (15 October 2003).

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