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

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

- Scott Pelley

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

- Scott Pelley

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

- Scott Pelley

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 w…

- 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

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…

- 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 i…

- Scott Pelley