Quotes by Morley Safer

About Morley Safer:

Morley Safer is a Canadian-American reporter and correspondent for CBS News. He is best known for his long tenure on the newsmagazine 60 Minutes, the cast of which he joined in December 1970, during the third season of the series.
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Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

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.

Morley Safer

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

Morley Safer

Author Bio

  • NameMorley Safer
  • DescriptionCanadian correspondent
  • BornNovember 8, 1931
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Author; Television Presenter
  • AwardsPeabody Award; Emmy Award; George Polk Award