I'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right. Helen Thomas More Quotes by Helen Thomas More Quotes From Helen Thomas I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press. Helen Thomas daughtermotheryears As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan. Helen Thomas eightrealjobs 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. Helen Thomas whitebookpeople You're only as good as your last story. Helen Thomas lastsexcellencestories Anybody who runs for public office today has got to know his life or her life will be an open book. I've decided that if you want to run for public office you have to decide at the age of 5 and live accordingly. Helen Thomas officerunningbook If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly. Helen Thomas politicspresidentage American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic. Helen Thomas auntpoliticscrazy I've always felt privileged to cover the White House and to have that ringside seat to history Helen Thomas journalismwhitehouse We've got to break through the wall of secrecy. It's America's fate. Helen Thomas break-throughwallfate You don't spread democracy with a barrel of a gun. Helen Thomas youspreaddemocracygun We won't really know what will happen until it happens. Helen Thomas happenwillknowhappens The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others. Helen Thomas mehonorlifebelieve War makes strange bedfellows. Helen Thomas makesbedfellowsstrangewar The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I'll kill myself. All we need is one more liar. Helen Thomas liarneeddaymyself I'm covering the worst president in American history. Helen Thomas americanworstpresidenthistory