Morley Safer Quotes

• BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

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

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• The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

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• 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.

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• The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

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• 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.

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

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• Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

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

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• Killing is the payoff of war.

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

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

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

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Birth:	8th November, 1931
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Correspondent, Journalist

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