films-about-whistleblowing

"Do you know what my husband said about the news? He called it the first rough draft of history."

"Quality drives profitability."

"[to Robert McNamara] I'm here asking your advice, Bob, not your permission."

"When Phil died it was just - I was 45 years old and I had never held - I never had to hold a job in my life. But, I just, I loved the paper, you know. I do. I do so love the paper. I don't want it to be my fault. I don't want to be the one - I don't want to let Phil and my father and all of you kids and everybody down."

"This company has been in my life for longer than most of the people working there have been alive. So, I don't need the lecture on legacy."

"This is no longer my father's company. It's no longer my husband's company. It's my company."

"My decision stands, and I'm going to bed."

"He says we can't, I say we can. There, you're caught up."

"They'll be defending the first amendment. We'll tell them that the only way to protect the right to publish - is to publish."

"No matter what happens tomorrow, we are not a little local paper anymore."

"But Kay. Kay is in a position she never thought she'd be in, a position I'm sure plenty of people don't think she should have. When you're told time and time again that you're not good enough, that your opinion doesn't matter as much. When they don't just look past you, when, to them, you're not even there, when that's been your reality for so long, it's hard not to let yourself think it's true. So to make this decision, to risk her fortune and the company that's been her entire life, well, I think that's brave."

"I always wanted to be part of a small rebellion."

"Someone said this, at some point, about why we stayed when we knew we were losing. Ten percent was to help the South Vietnamese. Twenty percent was to hold back the Commies. Seventy percent was to avoid the humiliation of an American defeat. Seventy percent of those boys just to avoid being humiliated? That stuck with me."

"I was struck, in fact, by President Johnson's reaction to these revelations as close to treason. Because it reflected to me the sense that what was damaging to the reputation of a particular administration, a particular individual, was in itself treason. Which is very close to saying, "I am the State"."

"Meg Greenfield: ...from the majority opinion: 'In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.'"

"Meryl Streep - Katharine "Kay" Graham"

"Tom Hanks - Ben Bradlee"

"Sarah Paulson - Antoinette "Tony" Pinchot Bradlee"

"Bob Odenkirk - Ben Bagdikian"

"Tracy Letts - Fritz Beebe"

"Bradley Whitford - Arthur Parsons"

"Bruce Greenwood - Robert McNamara"

"Carolyn McCormick - Mrs. McNamara"

"Matthew Rhys - Daniel Ellsberg"

"Alison Brie - Lally Graham"

"Carrie Coon - Meg Greenfield"

"Jesse Plemons - Roger Clark"

"David Cross - Howard Simons"

"Zach Woods - Anthony Essaye"

"Michael Stuhlbarg - A. M. Rosenthal"

"David Costabile - Art Buchwald"

"Pat Healy - Philip L. Geyelin"

"Rick Holmes - Murrey Marder"

"Philip Casnoff - Chalmers Roberts"

"Jessie Mueller - Judith Martin"

"Stark Sands - Donald E. Graham"

"Michael Cyril Creighton - Jake"

"James Riordan - Vice Admiral Joseph Francis Blouin"

"Kelly AuCoin - Assistant Attorney General Kevin Maroney"

"Cotter Smith - William Macomber"

"Jennifer Dundas - Liz Hylton"

"Justin Swain - Neil Sheehan"