Ben Bradlee quotes
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“It changes your life, the pursuit of truth,”
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“There is nothing like daily journalism! Best damn job in the world!”
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“You never monkey with the truth.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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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.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Stamina, bravery, brilliance - the great Ben Bradlee had it all" by Alan Rusbridger, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2014.
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“Hire people smarter than you are and encourage them to bloom.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Ben Bradlee, legendary Washington Post editor, dies at 93" by Robert G. Kaiser, www.washingtonpost.com. October 21, 2014.
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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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“The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.”
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“As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : Ben Bradlee (2011). “A Good Life”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
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“Our best today; better tomorrow,”
-- Ben BradleeSource : Ben Bradlee (2017). “A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures”, p.482, Simon and Schuster
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“The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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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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“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.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Fictional character: Ben Bradlee". "All the President's Men", 1976.
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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.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.277, St. Martin's Press
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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.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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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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“Sure, some journalists use anonymous sources just because they’re lazy, and I think editors ought to insist on more precise identification even if they remain anonymous.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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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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“If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.”
-- Ben BradleeSource : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
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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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“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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“Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.”
-- Ben Bradlee
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