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Every President hates the Press.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, and I will be a liberal 'til the day I die.

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President Bush has asserted the right to wiretap and eavesdrop on any American without a warrant in the name of fighting terrorism. He has asserted presidential power beyond stated constitutional rights, and there is no Republican gutsy enough to call his hand.

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When you speak of the press, of course, you have to speak of different segments of the press. Reporters, straight reporters, wire services, you stick to the facts; you don't create the story, per se. You cover what is happening.

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I'm covering the worst president in American history.

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I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

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I think that presidents deserve to be questioned. Maybe irreverently, most of the time. Bring 'em down a size. You see a president, ask a question. You have one chance in the barrel. Don't blow it.

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This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

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But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.

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I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

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When you're in the news business, you always expect the unexpected.

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We in the press have a special role since there is no other institution in our society that can hold the President accountable. I do believe that our democracy can endure and prevail only if the American people are informed.

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I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

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

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Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.

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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.

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We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

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I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

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You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun.

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

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The sudden ending of a White House career all seems so unceremonious for aides who have personally sacrificed a lot - and sometimes even bent their conscience - to do the president's bidding.

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You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun.

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Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists.

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We won't really know what will happen until it happens.

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The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.

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I think I'll work all my life. When you're having fun, why stop having fun?

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Every President hates the Press.

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Many voters think about the makeup of the Supreme Court when they are choosing a president. The justices deal not only with constitutional issues but also with social issues that were unknown to the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution more than 200 years ago.

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I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

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It's like I say to young people who ask me about going into journalism: If you want to be loved, don't go into this business.

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As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

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Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.

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We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.

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I respect the office of the presidency, but I never worship at the shrines of our public servants... The Washington press corps has the privilege of asking the president of the United States what he is doing and why.

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