Pelley Quotes & Sayings

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again. — Scott Pelley

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two. — John Masefield

Contrary to popular definitions, true tolerance means 'putting up with error' - not 'accepting all views'. We don't tolerate what we enjoy or endorse - say, chocolate, or roses, or Mozart's music. By definition, we tolerate what we don't approve of or what we believe to be false. — Paul Copan

If you're first, no one will ever remember. If you're wrong, no one will ever forget. — Scott Pelley

There is no democracy without journalism. — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

Nobody needs an Artist, but everyone needs ART. — Laurence Gartel

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The Lord shall do all for thee, and thou shalt do nothing, but be the Sabbath of Christ. — John Flavel

Not a lot of people watch cable news, they just don't. — Scott Pelley

Those who don't move don't notice their chains. — Rosa Luxemburg

The American people can always be trusted with the information. — Scott Pelley

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? — Scott Pelley

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

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

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. — Scott Pelley

the U.S., 5,000 people die waiting for a transplant that never comes. Supply and demand. People need donor kidneys to survive, but only a third of all kidney transplants come from living donors and 96% of those are family members. The demand is there, but the supply is limited, not because kidneys are not available, — Robert Thornhill

[The Fitzgeralds] rode down Fifth Avenue on the top of taxis because it was hot or dove into the fountain at Union Square or tried to undress at the Scandals, or, in sheer delight at the splendor of new York, jumped, dead sober, into the Pulitzer fountain in front of the Plaza. Fitzgerald got in fights with waiters and Zelda danced on people's dinner tables. — Arthur Mizener

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 — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

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

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector? — David Icke

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me. — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods. — Deb Caletti

If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier? — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided. — James Madison

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. — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

From the day after we lose someone, how we lost them doesn't matter. All that matters now is that they're gone, and there's absolutely no more interacting with that person. There's just the memories. And those memories will come pelting at you at random for a while, before you realize it can be beautiful to let them run through you. — Chad Pelley

Democracies succeed or fail based on their journalism. — Scott Pelley

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. — Scott Pelley

That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip. — Scott Pelley

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective. — Frank Shorter

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months. — King George V

Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with "good" bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go "bad", and those with "bad" bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have "good" bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle. — Golda Poretsky

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. — Scott Pelley

We have entered a time when a writer's first idea is his best idea, when the first thing a reporter hears is the first thing that she reports. We live in a time now when we have seen major television networks take video off of YouTube and broadcast it to millions of Americans without verifying whether the video had been fabricated or not. — Scott Pelley