Ben Bradlee

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

— Ben Bradlee

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..

— Ben Bradlee

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but…

— Ben Bradlee

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

— Ben Bradlee

The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper…

— Ben Bradlee

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

— Ben Bradlee

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…

— Ben Bradlee

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

— Ben Bradlee

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

— Ben Bradlee

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past…

— Ben Bradlee

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

— Ben Bradlee

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The…

— Ben Bradlee

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try…

— Ben Bradlee

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

— Ben Bradlee

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

— Ben Bradlee

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good…

— Ben Bradlee

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

— Ben Bradlee

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

— Ben Bradlee

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth,

— Ben Bradlee

There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!

— Ben Bradlee

Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That's just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find…

— Ben Bradlee

News is the first draft of history.

— Ben Bradlee

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

— Ben Bradlee

Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.

— Ben Bradlee

They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a ut case and they succeeded to some extent.

— Ben Bradlee