57 Quotes by Scott Pelley

That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

I wonder at what point do you stop doing what you think is right and you start doing what the majority of the American people want?

The American people can always be trusted with the information.

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

No one ever wanted to hire me. Ever. I've never been recruited anywhere. I have beat my head against every wall, at every place that I worked.

The country is only as strong as its journalism - that's the way democracies work. The higher the quality of the information, the better informed the electorate is and the better the government runs.

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not.

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget.