Helen Thomas Quotes

In America the president reigns for four years, and journalism governs for ever and ever.

The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

I would dare to dispute the integrity of the President on any occasion my country's welfare demanded it.... The President is neither an absolute monarch nor a descendant of a sun goddess.

The president, it seems to me, stands out as the one person in our system who is in a unique position where the checks on any lack of integrity there are more important than for anyone else in the system of government.

In the end, the responsibility of government abuse lies with the president.

Forget about war or disease or poverty. The apocalypse is when America's elected president is no longer supervised by the unelected ruling establishment.

Our Founding Fathers created the Executive Branch to implement and enforce the laws written by Congress, and vested this power in the president.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I think that less presidential interference the better.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

On form of government, there should be checks and balances, and PM should be responsible to Parliament.

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law.

Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country.

What would this country be like without the press prying to find out what the government is doing?

The whole power of the national government is gradually but surely passing under the complete control of our Presidents.

An attorney general has to stand up [to the President], and sometimes he will be replaced.

The separation of powers of the Constitution almost encourages leaks.

Most Americans look upon the President as superior to the Congress and the Supreme Court, about whose powers and functions they know very little;

If the Congress fails then American democracy is dysfunctional.

I have grave concerns that the CIA search may have violated the separation of powers principle embodied in the United States Constitution.

One of the roles of the press is to make sure that the president, in the voice of the people, is telling the truth.

Traditionally, in America, we have accountability as kind of a key feature of each branch of government in some way. So, you know, you obviously have to run for office. Or if you're a judge, you've got to be nominated by political officials and so on.

I was raised to believe nobody is above the law - especially not a president.