Carl Bernstein Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The most important ethical issues and the most difficult ones are the human ones because a reporter has enormous power to hurt people.”

“There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.”

“All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.”

“Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.”

“The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.”

“There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.”

“Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.”

“If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.”

“In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.”