A Good Life Quotes

“But journalists thrive on not knowing exactly what the future holds. That's part of the excitement. Something interesting, something important, will happen somewhere, as sure as God made sour apples, and a good aggressive newspaper will become part of that something.”
― Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

“I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.”
― Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

“My first lesson in the First Commandment of investigative journalism: Follow the Money. I”
― Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

“It would be ungrateful of me not to pause here to acknowledge the role of Richard Milhous Nixon in furthering my career. It is wonderfully ironical that a man who so disliked—and never understood—the press did so much to further the reputation of the press”
― Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

“A moment from another world! Imagine a reporter dictating an exclusive story, a lead story, sourced from the President of the United States, from a telephone just off the White House dance floor to the strains of Lester Lanin's dance band.”
― Ben Bradlee, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures