Morley Safer Quotes

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.
Morley Safer

God, Travel, Fine

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

Reality, Culture, Popular

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

Great, President, Flaws

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

Life, Care, Stars

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

Enough, Times, Eat

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

Killing is the payoff of war.
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

Friend, Done, Whatever

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.
Morley Safer

Work, War, Different

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

Rich, Clinton, Marc

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.
Morley Safer

Great, Sleep, Confidence

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
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Two, Three, Almost

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

Brilliant, Politician, Somewhere

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

Country, Speak, Ways

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

Enemy, Speak, Treat

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

Best, Kids, Often

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

Parents, Kids, Idea

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

Looking, Soon, Cure

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

Same, Order, 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.
Morley Safer

Serious, Stars, Quite

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.
Morley Safer

Learned, Clinton, Bill

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

Sunday, Night, Put

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

Caring, Considered, Defective

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

Nothing, Reality, Real

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

She, Alive, Rule

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Journalist

Born: November 8, 1931

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