Ben Bradlee Quotes:- Ben Bradlee (August 26, 1921 – October 21, 2014) was an American journalist who served as managing editor, then as executive editor of The Washington Post, from 1965 to 1991. He became a public figure when the Post joined The New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers and gave the go-ahead for the paper’s extensive coverage of the Watergate scandal. He was also criticized for editorial lapses when the Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 after it discovered its award-winning story was false.
Inspirational Ben Bradlee Quotes
“You never monkey with the truth.”
Ben Bradlee
“I must be out of it, but I don’t know any good journalists who have excused Clinton’s problems.”
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
“The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.”
Ben Bradlee
“I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.”
Ben Bradlee
“It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.”
Ben Bradlee
“I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.”
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
Famous Quotes by Ben Bradlee
“We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.”
Ben Bradlee
“The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.”
Ben Bradlee
“They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story’s momentum.”
Ben Bradlee
“We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.”
Ben Bradlee
“I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.”
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
“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
“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
“Maybe some of today’s papers have too many ‘feel-good’ features, but there is a lot of good news out there.”
Ben Bradlee
