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I want the American people to stop believing everything they hear and to ask more questions, to become more skeptical.

In the immediate aftermath of the pipeline bombing, the American media treated it like an unsolved mystery.

The republic's in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple.

Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media, The Guardian (2013)

I don’t think that Blinken and some others in the administration are deep thinkers.

There is a pattern to the response by the mainstream media.

I’m an old hand at dropping bombshell stories that are based on the disclosures of sources I do not, and cannot, name.

My own preference and my own view is: Things are more complicated than you think.

First, many thanks for your interest in what the pipeline story was all about: a very dangerous Presidential decision. You are careful readers.

I can tell you is that there’s an awful lot of good people in the government, believe it or not—an awful lot of people who don’t like lying.

The most insidious implication of the new system is that Rumsfeld no longer has to tell people what he’s doing

I’ve never been interested in socializing with pols or cozying up to money types at the self-important cocktail get togethers—the star-fu----- parties, I always liked to call them.

Other members of Congress were said to be included in the C.I.A.'s dossier on dissident Americans.

Joe Biden decided not to blow them up. It was in early June, five months into the war, but then, in September, he decided to do it.

The Democrats have been going around saying, "We're for the people, we're for the little guy." And all they do is run to Wall Street for money. And the one guy that didn't, [Bernie] Sanders, was sabotaged by the Democratic National Committee.

At least one avowedly antiwar member of Congress was among those placed under surveillance by the C.I.A., the sources said.

I'm sure there were some people who thought, Boy, is this going to give the American economy a long-term boost...

I think the end is just a question of time. Right now it’s a question of how many more people Zelensky wants to kill of his own people. It’s going to be over.

Young kids still see journalism as a viable way of dealing with the problems of society––particularly with a president who’s tone deaf on so much stuff.

By June, a Presidential decision on how to proceed against Saddam should have been made. But there are some Administration supporters who see little evidence of long-range thinking.

And I think the consequences of this for the Europeans are going to be horrific. They really — this has cut into the notion that they can depend totally on America, even in a crisis.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Seymour Hersh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.