Morley Safer Quotes

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

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.

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

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

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.

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

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.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

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

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.

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

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.

I don’t see myself as a Luddite.

I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache – even if you’re winning, you take a risk.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

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.