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Ben Bradlee

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
So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that’s a national security matter. Well, you’re supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government.
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Journalist National Problem Security Tremble
Generals who can write always make me nervous.
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Always General Nervous Writing
You never monkey with the truth.
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Animal Monkey Truth
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 champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
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Cooking Culinary Food
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
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Adult Children Effectiveness
There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!
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Jobs Journalism World
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
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
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
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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Differences Newspapers People President Press
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
It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.
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Editors Government National People Security
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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