#do

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

— Morley Safer

#any #business #calling #i #i am

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. ↗

— Morley Safer

#back #because #chose #come #done

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. ↗

— Morley Safer

#marc #pardoning #rich

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 #does #ed #go #going

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

— Morley Safer

#certain way #country #did #ford #jerry

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

— Morley Safer

#caring #compassionate #considered #defective #does

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. ↗

— Morley Safer

#did #discuss #ground #hepburn #i

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. ↗

— Morley Safer

#beautiful #beautiful woman #board #couple #does

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon. ↗

— Marat Safin

#down #drain #every #getting #going

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened