Seymour Hersh Quotes

I wrote a lot about Cheney in 'The New Yorker,' but I wrote very little of what I know. The only time I ever mentioned what he ever said at a meeting was when there were many people there who were not insiders, you know, other people not in the government, so my sources would be protected.
If you think I write stories where it is all right to just be good enough, are you kidding? You think I have a cavalier attitude on throwing stuff out? Are you kidding? I am not cavalier about what I do for a living.
I'm not convinced that every secret has to be published. I think there are secrets worth keeping, and I think there are secrets not worth keeping.
Maybe I am not an easy guy.
Most of the important secrets that I've known about, the real secrets that are known about aren't worth publishing.
The day after 9/11, we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing that George Kennan warned us never to do - to expand NATO too far.
Tracking down people who did not want to be found was vital to what I did for a living, and I was good at it.
Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore it.
Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.
Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.
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