67 Quotes by Ben Bradlee

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

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.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

I do worry about how newspapers respond to falling circulation figures. I'm not sure that the answer is for newspapers to try to cater to whatever seems to be the fad of the day.

In the perfect world every source could be identified, but like the man said, "It's not a perfect world."

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.