Ben Bradlee Quotes

Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out.

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.

Deep Throat is a guy who could have your files and mine in his trust.

I sat next to Carl Bernstein throughout Watergate, and Woodward would come over, and they would argue everything out, so I was really tuned into what happened.

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.

I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Suppose Watergate had not been uncovered? I'd still be on the City Desk.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.

I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.

The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

I think Bob Woodward's books are important books.

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

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.

The courage in journalism is sticking up for the unpopular, not the popular.

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.