79 Quotes by Carl Bernstein

"The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people."

"There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well."

"If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self."

"Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes."

"The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken."

"There's something totally crazy about this."

"Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics."

"Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."

"The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!"

"Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern."