Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernstein
Carl Bernsteinis an American investigative journalist and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 February 1944
CountryUnited States of America
information pressure firsts
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.
struggle people house
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.
government broken branches
The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.
beautiful girl crush
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.
heart white house
At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stans? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Liddy went to the White House or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stans both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Sussman would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.
ideas political independence
The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
political reform movement
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
today garbage ordinary
Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
new-york years three
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.
powerful responsibility reality
The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!
fun stupid creating
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
believe presidential campaigns
Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
stupid culture firsts
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
views issues doctrine
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.