I think weve done -- the media, the press -- has done one of the great reporting jobs in the history of especially of covering a presidency by the most news organizations, and look, lets look at where the disinformation and mistakes and lying have come from. It hasnt come from the press. Its come from the President of the United States and those around him.

Carl Bernstein

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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

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John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

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Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

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There's something totally crazy about this. by Carl Bernstein

There's something totally crazy about this.

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.

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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

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At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

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Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character... by Carl Bernstein

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

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( The book) is a reconstruction of meeting after meeting after meeting in which you begin to wonder why doesn't John Kelly, the chief of staff, go to the Congress of the United States in executive session, resign for the good of the country, go to the Congress and say' I want to answer all of your questions about this president in full about what the context is, about what's in this book, et cetera, et cetera,' and then let's see how it holds up.

Richard Nixon tried to make the conduct of the press more the issue in Watergate instead of the conduct of Richard Nixon and Richard Nixon men, we tried to avoid the noise and let the reporting speak.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, eve... by Carl Bernstein

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

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

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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.

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