In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The people of the United States are entitled to assume that their President is telling the truth. The pattern of misrepresentation and half-truths that… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The August 1 story had carried their joint byline; the day afterward, Woodward asked Sussman if Bernstein's name could appear with his on the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The managing editor shared Bernstein's fondness for doping things out on the basis of sketchy information. At the same time, he was cautious about… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it's broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
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