Quotes by Ben Bradlee

• We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.
• The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.
• The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.
• 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.
• 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.
• They certainly did. They tried to make her look like a "nut case" and they succeeded to some extent.
• We made only one real mistake. And even then we were 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.
• They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.
• 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.
• 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.
• It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.
• You never monkey with the truth.
• I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.
• I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.
• I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
• I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
• Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.