Generals who can write always make me nervous.
BEN BRADLEEThere is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
More Ben Bradlee Quotes
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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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The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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The first rough draft of history.
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Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.
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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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Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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You never monkey with the truth.
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As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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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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I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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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.
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There will always be leaks; in Washington, everywhere.
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Our best today; better tomorrow.
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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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