Morley Safer Quotes & Sayings

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

“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 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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Killing is the payoff of war.”

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