“The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always e...” — Helen Thomas Quote

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.

War makes strange bedfellows.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

I never really expected to win the hearts of the masses.

Also, my mom and family are very important to me and I know that this is not expected.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

We're only going to invest our shareholders' money where we think they can get the kind of returns they expected when they invested their money with Exxon Mobil.