67 Quotes by Ben Bradlee

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be 'gotcha' journalism, but it's also good journalism.

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.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

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.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.