Campaigns Quote by 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 the law…

— 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 people and…

— 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 to print…

— 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 the first…

— 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 truth is…

— Ben Bradlee