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

- Theodore White

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

- Theodore White

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

- Theodore White

There are two kinds of editors, those who correct your copy and those who say it's wonderful.

- Theodore White

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.

- Theodore White

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.

- Theodore White

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.

- Theodore White

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