American Quote by Daniel Keys Moran

“Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The Washington press…

— James T. Patterson

“Among my father’s most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions. Years after the publication of…

— Frank Herbert

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York…

— Lionel Barber

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and…

— Thom Yorke

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since…

— Rick Perlstein

The America that never cared or felt guilty about portraying us as undignified people on their television screen, or in some old history book…

— Leonard Peltier

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

— Benazir Bhutto

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

— Bruce Jackson

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

— Charles Krauthammer

“Whatever the source, a steady diet of bad information, conveyed in bad faith, can over time become a serious threat to a democracy. Over…

— Jeff Flake

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.

— David Cross

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but…

— Howard Fineman