Scott Pelley Quotes
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If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?
Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.
Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.
No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.
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.
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?
You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.
The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o
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.
In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor and that is the danger that we face today.
Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.
