Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's…

— Morley Safer

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror…

— Morley Safer

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can…

— Morley Safer

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share…

— Morley Safer

Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautiful woman,…

— Morley Safer

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every…

— Morley Safer

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

— 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

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious…

— Morley Safer

The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget…

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

This [the movie Babe] is the way Americans want to think of pigs. Real-life 'Babes' see no sun in their limited lives,…

— 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…

— Morley Safer

The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes…

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer

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

— Morley Safer