Theodore White Quotations

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.

The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.

I class myself as a manual laborer.

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

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Always inflation comes gradually; is recognized too late; and can be cured only by ruthless political surgery, which, if delayed too long, proves futile....

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence and the comedy, the passion and the issues were ours-no other country can provide them.

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.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.