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“When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'”
“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.”
“I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.”
“We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.”
“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.”
“I don't see myself as a Luddite.”
“Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.”
“What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?”
“No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.”
“For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.”
“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.”
“You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.”
“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.”
“Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.”
“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.”
“The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.”
“I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.”
“I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.”
“Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.”