36 ordspråk av Theodore H. White

Theodore H. White

Theodore H. White föddes den 6 maj 1915 och dog den 15 maj 1986
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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.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

It was like walking through a field playing a brass tuba the day it rained gold. Everything was sitting around waiting to be reported.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

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

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

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

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.

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

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

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