"Theodore Harold White" was an American political journalist and historian, known for his wartime reporting from China and accounts of the United States presidential election, 1960/1960, United States presidential election, 1964/1964, United States presidential election, 1968/1968, United States presidential election, 1972/1972 and United States presidential election, 1980/1980 presidential elections.

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Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

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