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As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

Ben Bradlee

Our best today; better tomorrow.
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Better Today Tomorrow
The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
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Body People Politics
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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 the truth. We print what people tell us. It’s up to the public to decide what’s true.
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Causes News People
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
The 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.
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Differences Newspapers People President Press
National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail.
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Government Jail Mean
In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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Men Perfect World
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.
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Jobs Lying Running
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.
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Editors Lazy Thinking
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Orbit Proof Resurrect Resurrection
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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Girl Numbers People
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

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