Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
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… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
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… — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there. — Ben Bradlee Copy Share
