Words matter. These are the best Seymour Hersh Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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 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 sometimes think that we underestimate Trump, but that’s just my opinion. I always like to tack the other way, I guess.
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 a better American than 99% of the guys in the White House.
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.
Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There’s a huge difference between writing and thinking.
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 don’t think much of the journalism that I see.
I can’t fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.
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 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 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.
Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.
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.
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.
