Quotes from Morley Safer

So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction.

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.

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

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.

We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people.

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.

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

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

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

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air.

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

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

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.

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

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

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.

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

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.

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

Killing is the payoff of war.