Morley Safer Quotes

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.
When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.
Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.
Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman, no doubt very rich and very troubled. Anything can happen and usually does on the Orient Express.
You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.
For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.
I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.
I don't see myself as a Luddite.
I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?
I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.
I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.
I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.
McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.
No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.
We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.
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