Carl Bernstein

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

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”