Morley Safer

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

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

A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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