As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
BEN BRADLEEIt changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It’s very, it’s very exciting.
More Ben Bradlee Quotes
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The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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You never monkey with the truth.
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The first rough draft of history.
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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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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 also good journalism.
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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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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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It changes your life, the pursuit of 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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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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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.
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So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that’s a national security matter. Well, you’re supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government.
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