Quotes About Reliability

My sense is that, when you look at what people such as former Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have said over the years, you don't go with a story unless you have two independent sources to confirm it.

I don't name sources.

I don't like when people come out and say 'sources say' and this and that. Listen, if you can't put your name behind it, then don't say it. I don't believe in that.

I don't trust news sources, and neither should other people. They should use them in the same way that they use medical opinions and get more than one on the important issues. Trust is the most precious thing you could possibly give to another person. But to institutions? Publications?

Twitter has created a certain momentum that is not always fact-based. I worry about that because I still live in a world where you need to have two sources.

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

Everyone has someone to call on when they're down, let me be that someone when that ones not around.

I made promises to you that I'm not sure I can keep.

You've always got me""Always?""Didn't I just say so?""Yes""Am I liar? ""No." I lied.

the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same

The secret to lifelong friendship is to treat is not just as a gift, but also as a responsibility. Thanks for playing your part to perfection....

When everything else is shattering, you feel like the one true constant.

surprise it's better than promises

And it hit me like a ton of bricks - that people will put you on a pedestalto only later pull it from under you. Stability.

Your mind, it will trick you but your heart, it will not.

When you make a commitment, you build trust. when you keep it, you build trust.

I never expected you to understand, but I did expect you to be there.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

I'LL BELT THE EARTH WITH DEPENDABLE MOTOR CARS

It is not the clock that strikes the loudest that keeps the best time. The expensive chronometer works steadily along doing its work well and faithfully. It does not attract as much attention as the gilt clock with its sweet chimes, but men who know things are aware that the chronometer has the more real merit. Have the chronometer for your ideal and not the fancy clock, for true merit will certainly receive due reward.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

that if you need something urgently done, give the task to the busiest (or second busiest) person in the office.

More data means more information, but it also means more false information.