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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 also good journalism.

Ben Bradlee

You never monkey with the truth.
BEN BRADLEE

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.
BEN BRADLEE

Causes News People
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

Jobs Lying Running
More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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Guy Personal Something Telling
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
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
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
The first rough draft of history.
BEN BRADLEE

Drafts Firsts Journalism Rough
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
Nothing’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.
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Country Guy Mad
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
BEN BRADLEE

Always Country Everywhere Leaks
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces Graves Tape
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
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
BEN BRADLEE

Always General Nervous Writing

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