Quotes by Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

Adults

Children

Effectiveness

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

Jobs

Lying

Running

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.

Given

Motive

Newspapers

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn’t that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.

Girl

Numbers

People

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Proof

Resurrection

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Passionate

Saws

Thinking

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ‘gotcha’ journalism, but it’s also good journalism.

Journalism

May

Robbing

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

Changing Your Life

Pursuit

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

Campaigns

Claims

Telling The Truth

It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

Editors

Government

People

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Administration

Adults

Better Tomorrow

Body

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Causes

Changing Your Life

Children

Claims

Differences

Editors

Effectiveness

Faces

Girl

Given

Government

Graves

Jail

Jobs

Journalism

Lazy

Leaks

Lying

May

Mean

Monkeys

Motive

News

Newspapers

Numbers

Passionate

People

Politics

Pressure

Proof

Pursuit

Resurrection

Robbing

Running

Saws

Tape

Telling The Truth

Thinking

Today

Tomorrow

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Quotes by Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

As long as a journalist tells the truth, in conscience and fairness, it is not his job to worry about consequences. The truth is never as dangerous as a lie in the long run. I truly believe the truth sets men free.

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.

I don’t want to disappoint too many people, but the number of interesting political, historical conversations we had, you could stick in your ear, it wasn’t that many. We talked about friends, family and of course girls.

I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

If an investigative reporter finds out that someone has been robbing the store, that may be ‘gotcha’ journalism, but it’s also good journalism.

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth.

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

It’s very hard to stand up to the government which is saying that publication will threaten national security. People don’t seem to realize that reporters and editors know something about national security and care deeply about it.

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