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" I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have. "

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" I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. "

" We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions. "

" I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person. "

" All I'm armed with is research. "

" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "

" You want to put a man at ease. "

" I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. "

" I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago. "

" I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. "

" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "

" I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' "

" Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. "

" Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that. "

" I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. "

" My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. "

" When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. "

" I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial. "

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" You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed. "

" Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. "

" Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. "

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" I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word. "

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" I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.' "

" Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle. "