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

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" I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" All I'm armed with is research. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" You want to put a man at ease. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "