Top Truman Quotes
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
Eugenie Anderson
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
Rich Little
That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
James F. Byrnes
All Truman Quotes
Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously.
Gerald Clarke 
58% of people like this quote
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Alvin Ailey 
57% of people like this quote
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.
Rich Little 
55% of people like this quote
That was the principle of reparations to which President Truman agreed at Potsdam. And the United States will not agree to the taking from Germany of greater reparations than was provided by the Potsdam Agreement.
James F. Byrnes 
55% of people like this quote
I would say that President Roosevelt probably was more intimately in touch with the press corps at the White House than President Truman was.
Clifton Daniel 
54% of people like this quote
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
Jim Carrey 
54% of people like this quote
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
George Plimpton 
54% of people like this quote
I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.
Paul Hoffman 
54% of people like this quote

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