Carl Bernstein

Journalist

Carl Bernstein is an American journalist known for his investigative reporting during the Watergate scandal, which led to significant political reforms.

Born
February 8, 1944
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"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."

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"The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas."

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"Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes."

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"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."

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"Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern."

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