Morley Safer Quotes

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.'

Journalists dedicate their lives to covering war - they make many personal sacrifices, and it's not something that's gender-based. In a place like Libya where there's heavy fighting, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

The Vietnam war was the first television war. You didn’t have to imagine it any more. You could see it.... Television changed the way war was covered forever.

A man can fight if he can see daylight down the road. But there ain’t no daylight in Vietnam. There’s not a bit.

The impact of the Vietnam War on TV made everyone recognize the importance of visual media.

I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense that the administration got a pass during the hot days of war and now that the war is over it's time to even out the deck somewhat.

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security.

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

I've been asked what differentiates war literature as a category, and I don't think there is anything.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

What they could do with 'round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.