64 Quotes by Morley Safer

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

We will still be on and I think that is a distinct difference. I mean, we'll all be dead, but it'll still be on.

As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I want it,' and it got done. You can't do that now.

Artie was there from the beginning, a whirlwind of energy, as passionate about the look of 60 Minutes as we all were about the substance. Through the decades he never became jaded, never faltered, never lost his exuberance for giving everything he touched a special touch of class.