79 Quotes by Carl Bernstein

"The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do."

"Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society."

"I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth."

"There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice."

"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context."

"John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans."

"The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas."

"All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks."

"Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage."

"The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised."