Morley Safer Quotes

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• 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…
• Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.
• 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…
• I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
• I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
• It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
• 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…
• In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
• Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
• I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.
• 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…
• 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?
• Killing is the payoff of war.
• You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
• 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…
• 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…
• We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.
• Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.
• Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

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