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It 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.

Ben Bradlee

There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Always Country Everywhere Leaks
It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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Campaign Claims Telling Truth
Everybody who talks to a newspaper has a motive. That’s just a given. And good reporters always, repeat always, probe to find out what that motive is.
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Given Motive Newspapers
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
Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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Encourage People Smarter
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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 do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I’m not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.
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Fall Trying Worry
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
It 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.
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Gone Past Real
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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Journalism May Robbing

It 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.

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