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.

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.

You never monkey with the truth.

We were right about the slush fund. But Sloan did not testify about it to the Grand Jury.

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.

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.

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

The Nixon administration really put a lot of pressure on CBS not to run the second broadcast.

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong.

They cut about seven minutes from that broadcast, but it was still vital to the story's momentum.

Maybe some of today's papers have too many 'feel-good' features, but there is a lot of good news out there.

The champagne was flowing like the Potomac in flood.

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

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.

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.

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

We made only one real mistake. And even then we were right.

We don't print the truth. We don't pretend to print the truth. We print what people tell us. It's up to the public to decide what's the truth.

Books by politicians paint a picture of what they want you to see, not what really happened.

Generals who can write always make me nervous.

He [William Clinton] has terrible trouble with the truth. I don’t think Presidents should have trouble with the truth.

If a senator gets drunk at home it's nobody's business. If he is drunk on the floor of the Senate, it's the public's business.

I've yet to meet a President who controlled the CIA.

Politicians often refuse to talk about things on the grounds of national security. Most of the time it’s not national security; it’s national embarrassment.

She turned the President from a slob into a dude.