As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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More Ben Bradlee Quotes
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You never monkey with the truth.
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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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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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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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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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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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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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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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The first rough draft of history.
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There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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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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Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.
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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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