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Ben Bradlee

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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Jobs Lying Running
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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Causes News People
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
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Orbit Proof Resurrect Resurrection
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
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Passionate Saws Thinking
The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
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
It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.
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Changing Life Pursuit
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
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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Girl Numbers People
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
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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Country Guy Mad
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
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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Feel Good News Paper
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.
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Faces Graves Tape
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
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Administration Pressure Running

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