There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
BEN BRADLEEHire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
More Ben Bradlee Quotes
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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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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.
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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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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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I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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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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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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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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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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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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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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In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, “It’s not a perfect world.”
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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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