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.

More Quotes by Carl Bernstein

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.

I think all good reporting is the same thing - the best attainable version of the truth.

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.

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

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.

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