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. – Ben Bradlee
They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story’s momentum. – Ben Bradlee
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. – Ben Bradlee
Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there. – 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. – Ben Bradlee
I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits. – Ben Bradlee
We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury. – Ben Bradlee
The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast. – Ben Bradlee
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. – Ben Bradlee
I must be out of it, but I don’t know any good journalists who have excused Clinton’s problems. – Ben Bradlee
I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on. – Ben Bradlee
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. – Ben Bradlee
