All Carl Bernstein Quotes
- The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives… American
- We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath… Becoming
- June 17, 1972. Nine o'clock Saturday morning. Early for the telephone. Woodward fumbled for the receiver and snapped awake. The city editor of the Washington… Arrested
- At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after… Age
- The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness… Accuracy
- The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering… Abdication
- The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented… Blizzard
- You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line. Bottom
- 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 raving… Agenda
- Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Americans
- Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them. Amuse
- Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the… Celebrity
- For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. Becoming
- All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,'… All
- Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes. Believe
- In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the… Advantage
- John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a… Ahead
- Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides… Based
- Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. American
- The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas. All
- There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was… Been
- I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth. All
- The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were… American
- The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people. Difficult