Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
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. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; it’s broken. One of our three branches of government is broken. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
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. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard – the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
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. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
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. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
There’s no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well. Carl Bernstein Read Quote
