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

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" 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. "

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

" It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy. "

" Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They'll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that's why we're at number 16 or 14 or whatever. "

" I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. "

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

" All I'm armed with is research. "

" I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella. "

" I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work? "

" I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions. "

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

" In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we'd introduced on 'Night Beat.' But that proved easier said than done. "

" To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was. "

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

" There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path. "

" Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too. "

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

" The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story. "

" 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. "

" I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "

" 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. "

" I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. "

" There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job. "

" As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. "

" 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.' "

" In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. "

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