Charlie Rose

“The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.”

“I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.”

“I would love to have a long and serious conversation with the Pope. And Woody Allen, whom I have never interviewed. Then, after those two? Steve Jobs.”

“I knew that if I could put a table in a room with not much light and a couple of chairs, I could have a real conversation. And I know that people... like to eavesdrop on a conversation.”

“I think Vladimir Putin, because of all of his experiences, has a real fear about being - about NATO being on his borders. He's always had that.”

“I think that most people believe that Russia, because of its - it has regained some of its military strength. And they do rattle the saber a bit. It wants to be a player.”

“I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.”

“I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.”

“The question is just as important as the answer.”

“Richard Serra, the great sculptor, personifies an artist for me.”

“I'm not an advocacy journalist - that's not what I do. My role in journalism is to be able to engage the most interesting people with the best ideas.”

“If I was madly in love with someone who offered the opportunity to spend our lives together, I would love to have a child or adopt a child.”

“I'm flattered by the fact that most people tell me they don't know what my politics are.”

“The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.”

“I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.”

“I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.”

“The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.”

“I think the long interview has an important life.”

“The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.”

“My parents had a great work ethic.”