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" I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties. "

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" I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years. "

" I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I? "

" You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times. "

" I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere. "

" The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis. "

" I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk. "

" After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really. "

" If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art. "

" Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that. "

" I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good. "

" McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion. "

" In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country. "

" Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask. "

" A lot of sponsors over the years have left us. They've all come back. But they chose to leave us for a while because of stories we have done about them or their products or their friend's products or whatever. "

" I don't see myself as a Luddite. "

" What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate? "

" The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton. "

" No great pastry chef has sweet teeth. "

" When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.' "

" We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit. "

" When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that. "

" For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line. "

" So much crap passes as information that not only does the audience sometimes miss the distinction between news and crap, the editors sometimes miss the distinction. "

" Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened. "

" You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that. "

" Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. "

" We don't want anything from the government but that furtive little fellow called the truth - which, by the way, they'll never give you - which you have to go out and find by talking to people. "

" After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have decided to retire. It's been a wonderful run, but the time has come to say goodbye to all of my friends at CBS and the dozens of people who kept me on the air. "