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" 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 not that difficult, really. "

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God

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

" I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk. "

" Killing is the payoff of war. "

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" I don't see myself as a Luddite. "

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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. "

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

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

" McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I? "

" 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 one little screw loose somewhere. "

" 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. "

Morley Safer

Confidence

" I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good. "

Morley Safer

Talking

Money

" When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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Parents

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties. "