Scott Pelley Quotations

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

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.

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

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

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

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

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

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

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.

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