"I don’t want to disappoint too many people,……" — Ben Bradlee
"I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn't that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls."
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32 Quotes by Ben Bradlee
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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had…
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As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about…
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You never monkey with the truth.
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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's…
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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face..
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Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise…
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth,
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Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really…
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