Morley Safer Quotes

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

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

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.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

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

The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.

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.

I don't see myself as a Luddite.

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

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

Killing is the payoff of war.

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.

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.

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

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.