There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
BEN BRADLEEThere will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
BEN BRADLEEMore likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
BEN BRADLEEThose [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
BEN BRADLEEThe history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
BEN BRADLEEThe biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.
BEN BRADLEEAs a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
BEN BRADLEEYou never monkey with the truth.
BEN BRADLEEIt is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
BEN BRADLEEIt changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
BEN BRADLEEThe Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
BEN BRADLEEI think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
BEN BRADLEEHire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
BEN BRADLEEI never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
BEN BRADLEENothing’s riding on this, except the First Amendment to the Constitution, freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country. Not that any of that matters, but if you guys f-k up again, I’m gonna get mad.
BEN BRADLEEGenerals who can write always make me nervous.
BEN BRADLEEI 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.
BEN BRADLEE