Morley Safer Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.”

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

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