Seymour Hersh Quotes

Bush can talk about 100,000 people wanting to go work in the police or in the army. It's because there's nothing else for them to do. They're willing to stand in line to get bombed because they want to take care of their family.
I'm a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.
It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.
It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts.
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is the end of society in their eyes.
I always believe in truth. Sometimes I know truth others don't. That puts me in a little bit of jeopardy sometimes.
I came out of a lower-middle-class background. At that time, everyone used to define themselves: Stalinist, Maoist, whatever. I thought they meant 'miaowist'. Seriously! Something to do with cats.
I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.
I didn't know I was gonna be a writer when I started out.
I don't necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.
I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one.
I don't think much of the journalism that I see.
I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.
I hate to see the way journalism is devalued: We have to feed the machine; we have to feed the Trump outrage machine, to feed the anger against Trump, to feed the New York liberal anger.
I have always been a freelancer. I always work for myself.
I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever... Not that journalism is always wonderful - it's not - but at least we offer some way out, some integrity.
I joined the 'Times' in 1972, and I came with the mark of Cain on me because I was clearly against the war. But my editor, Abe Rosenthal, he hired me because he liked stories. He used to come to the Washington bureau and almost literally pat me on the head and say, 'How is my little Commie today? What do you have for me?'
I say to people, 'Do you have any idea how hard it is to do that, to write 7,000 words in 10 hours or 12 hours for the front page of the 'New York Times' and to know that they trust you so much that that it's going to lead the paper?' It's hard. I mean, it's a feat.
I sometimes think that we underestimate Trump, but that's just my opinion. I always like to tack the other way, I guess.
I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry.
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