To resist the draft is to resist the society that tolerates it.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Symbolic Power
The most powerful man in America is President. But the most powerful man in Washington is the doorman at the White House.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Technology Misuse
The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing than drunk driving of an automobile.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Absence of Truth
The truth is like oxygen. You can tell when it’s not there.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Financial Trails
Follow the money, always follow the money.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Disregarding Truth
They tried to make the truth irrelevant.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Documentary Evidence
Sometimes the key to the whole story is just one document.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Journalism Ethics
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.
Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President’s Men
Wonder of Survival
They still wonder why they lived when so many others died.
John Hersey – Hiroshima
Precious Fragility
The feeling she had was that everything was suddenly very precious, very fragile, and very perishable.
John Hersey – Hiroshima