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" 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. "

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" I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. "

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

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

" But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think it's simply wonderful. I was not a happy kid. Back in those days, I remember the sick, gray days were better. Because when it was sunny I'd feel worse. "

" I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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? "

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" 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. "

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" What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush? "

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" 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. "

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