We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things the general public does not need to know, and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

Katharine Graham

Categorized in : Dirty Believe World Government

A mistake is simply another way of doing things by Katharine Graham

A mistake is simply another way of doing things

Katharine Graham

wisdom mistake work

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything... by Katharine Graham

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

Katharine Graham

motivational positive inspirational

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is adverti... by Katharine Graham

News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising.

Katharine Graham

news freedom want

The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

Katharine Graham

rise-to-power women sex

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society. by Katharine Graham

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Katharine Graham

depends information democracy

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

Katharine Graham

ledges eye feet

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

Katharine Graham

work-out ifs enough

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't p... by Katharine Graham

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

Katharine Graham

agendas journalism matter

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else. by Katharine Graham

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.

Katharine Graham

aging economy age

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult... by Katharine Graham

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Katharine Graham

learning lessons answers

If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.

Katharine Graham

surveillance political facts

The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.

Katharine Graham

anger persons bears

So few grown women like their lives. by Katharine Graham

So few grown women like their lives.

Katharine Graham

grown-women gender

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and n... by Katharine Graham

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

Katharine Graham

essentials work water

Whatever power I exert is collegial. by Katharine Graham

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

Katharine Graham

I mean, I think everybody in the world, all the young people in the world, went to journalism school and wanted to investigate everything. And I think they overdid it. I think that you have to investigate things, you have to e skeptical, but you shouldn't be vengeful. You have to be fair and you have to be careful.

Katharine Graham

mean school thinking

Truth and news are not the same thing. by Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing.

Katharine Graham

libertarian-party news liberty

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

Katharine Graham

anxiety rocks way

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my sto... by Katharine Graham

The Montessori Method- learning by doing-once again became my stock in trade.

Katharine Graham

learning-by-doing method trade

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

Katharine Graham

eight cities people