Morley Safer
Morley Safer
Morley Saferwas a Canadian-American broadcast journalist, reporter, and correspondent for CBS News. He was best known for his long tenure on the news magazine 60 Minutes, whose cast he joined in 1970 after its second year on television. He was the longest-serving reporter on 60 Minutes, the most watched and most profitable program in television history...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth8 November 1931
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.
In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.
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.
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.
Killing is the payoff of war.
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.
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.
[The] BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful.
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.
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.
It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.