Ben Bradlee Quotes


"The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood."
- Ben Bradlee
"The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Nixon, Pressure)

"The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Right)

"There have been as many investigative reporters on this newspaper working on Clinton's many problems as I can remember there were working on Watergate."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Problems)

"They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent."
- Ben Bradlee
"We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Mistake, Right)

"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 Bradlee
(Related: Journalism, May)

"They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum."
- Ben Bradlee
"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 Bradlee
(Related: People, Difference, Nixon, Press)

"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 Bradlee
(Related: Editors)

"It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Day, Wrong)

"You never monkey with the truth."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Truth)

"I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Truth, Devotion, Horror)

"I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Nixon, Proof)

"I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Problems)

"I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: Credit)

"Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there."
- Ben Bradlee
(Related: News, Today)