Pelley Quotes

#1. It is every producer's dream to be part of a dedicated, hard-working team that produces an outstanding broadcast like the 'CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.'

Steve Capus

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

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#3. He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Seneca The Younger

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

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#5. 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?

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#6. A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

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#8. You have to be a political leader, willing to lose an election if you want to do what's right.

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#9. America is strong because its journalism is strong. That's how democracies work. They're only as good as the quality of the information that the public possesses. And that is where we come in.

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#10. When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

J Allard

#11. Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

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#12. I've changed a lot since 1969, and so has the world; I'm more benign, the world is far bleaker, and the people in Love would now be edging nervously up to the middle age they thought could never happen, they thought the world would end first.

Angela Carter

#13. 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.

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#14. The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched.

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#15. The American people can always be trusted with the information.

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#16. You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

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#17. Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

Lord Byron

#18. The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#19. At the end of the way is freedom. Until then, patience.

Gautama Buddha

#20. I occupy much of my time in theological studies for which I have a natural inclination.

Cole Younger

#21. When you are talking to 7 million viewers across the country, man you have got to represent everybody's views and have got to give them the impression that you are being as honest as you know how to be.

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#22. seems young people don't want to make compromises or sacrifices too easily. They don't naturally go out of their way. It's the 'please me now' generation.

V.C. Andrews

#23. It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

S.A. Tawks

#24. My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Thomas Jefferson

#25. No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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

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#28. I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Sumner Redstone

#29. When you lift up others, you rise up together.

Debasish Mridha

#30. If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?

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#31. Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't.

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#32. God knows better than we do what we need.

Victor Hugo

#33. There is no democracy without journalism.

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#34. 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.

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#35. Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism.

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#36. In a world where everyone is a publisher, no one is an editor. And that is the danger that we face today.

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#37. 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.

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#38. 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.

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#39. My parents said to us, practically on a daily basis, that we were as good as anyone else on this earth, and that we would simply have to work harder in order to show that.

Jessye Norman