Scott Pelley

The American people can always be trusted with the information.

— Scott Pelley

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

— Scott Pelley

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of…

— Scott Pelley

You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls…

— Scott Pelley

The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you…

— Scott Pelley

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human…

— Scott Pelley

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

— Scott Pelley

That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

— Scott Pelley

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

— Scott Pelley

Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is…

— Scott Pelley

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to…

— Scott Pelley

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

— Scott Pelley

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at…

— Scott Pelley

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.

— Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism.

— Scott Pelley

When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got…

— Scott Pelley

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

— Scott Pelley

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be…

— Scott Pelley

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

— Scott Pelley

America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information…

— Scott Pelley

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information,…

— Scott Pelley

In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

— Scott Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

— Scott Pelley

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is…

— Scott Pelley

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on…

— Scott Pelley