Quotes by Ben Bradlee - Page 1

You never monkey with the truth.
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Truth
Monkey
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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Tomorrow
Today
Tomorrow
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The first rough draft of history.
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Firsts
Journalism
Rough Drafts
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I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
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Credit
Cronkite
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Your Life
Pursuit
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Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Nervous
Writing
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Food
Champagne
Cooking
Culinary
Flood
Potomac
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.
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Mistake
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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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People
Smarter
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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs
Journalism
World
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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces
Graves
Tape
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We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
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Fund
Grand Jury
Jury
Slush
Grand
Testify
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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adults
Children
Effectiveness
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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Running
Administration
Pressure
Broadcast
Cbs
Nixon
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I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
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Clinton
Excused
Journalists
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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Devotion
Passionate
Saws
Strange
Thinking
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They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
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Minutes
Momentum
Seven
Broadcast
Cut
Vital
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Proof
Resurrection
Believed
Fully
Nixon
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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."
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Men
Perfect
World
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Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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Features
Feel Good
Good News
News
Paper
Papers
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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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Campaigns
Claims
Telling The Truth
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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
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Politics
Body
People
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.
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Journalism
May
Robbing
Reporter
Finds
Investigative
Store
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Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
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Given
Motive
Newspapers
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There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate.
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Clinton
Reporters
Watergate
Investigative
Newspaper
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The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.
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Coal
Carrying
Tough Thing
Woodward
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they're lazy and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
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Editors
Identification
Lazy
Ought
Precise
Anonymous
Insist
Journalists
Remain
Sources
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
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Editors
Lazy
Thinking
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I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
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Fall
Trying
Worry
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.
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Gone
Past
Real
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The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
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Concerned
Differences
Enjoyed
Newspapers
People
Sparring
Biggest Difference
Jack
Journalists
Newspaper
Nixon
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Nothing's riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I'm gonna get mad.
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Country
Guy
Mad
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As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.
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Jobs
Running
Lying
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To hell with news! I'm no longer interested in news. I'm interested in causes. We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's true.
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Causes
News
People
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I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.
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Girl
Numbers
People
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It's very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don't seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.
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Government
Editors
People
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Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
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Country
Ethical Standards
Integrity
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National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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Government
Jail
Mean
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