Morley Safer Quotes (32 Quotes)

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

Killing is the payoff of war.

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, occupying old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

The BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.

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.

You could not have asked for a better opponent than Gray Davis who was right on the ropes at that time,

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

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.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

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.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.