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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.'
Mike Wallace

Good, True, Night

CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien

Crazy, Bad, Said

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.
Charles Kuralt

Life, Work, Time

When I first broke through, there was only NBC, CBS and ABC, and they had news in the morning and in the evening - there wasn't no 24-hour news.
Dick Gregory

Morning, Evening, Through

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
Dan Rather

Work, Live, Blessed

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.
Dick Wolf

Change, Home, Night

I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years.
Andy Cohen

After, Working, Wanted

When I was a 21-year-old intern at CBS, I was told I had crossed eyes and shouldn't try to be on air. That's when I decided I was going to be behind the scenes.
Andy Cohen

Eyes, Try, Behind

I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.
Andy Cohen

Live, After, Wanted

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.
Rob Sheffield

Experience, Evening, Strange

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.
Mike Wallace

Best, Job, Made

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

Work, Mother, Mean

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
Floyd Abrams

Work, Hard, Understand

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.
Mika Brzezinski

Perception, News, Months

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.
Mika Brzezinski

Work, Busy, After

I suffered from a mild case of postpartum depression after my second child and the physical challenge of maintaining an overnight shift at CBS, a marriage, and two in diapers made the symptoms worse and everyone in the house paid the price.
Mika Brzezinski

Marriage, Depression, Made

CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.
Mike Rogers

Show, Television, Super

'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
Mark Burnett

Finance, Thinking, Big

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the highest court.
Floyd Abrams

Texas, Highest, Court

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
Floyd Abrams

Good, Mean, Thinking

I think that the very fact that CBS fought and fought and fought in Texas, in New York.
Floyd Abrams

Fact, Texas, York

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.
Floyd Abrams

Doubt, Talk, Learn

It is not to benefit CBS, not to benefit its reporters. On this one, the entire basis of it is this is a way to get more information, more important information to the public. And that's why so many states recognize this.
Floyd Abrams

Important, Why, Public

The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
Floyd Abrams

Fight, Important, Hard

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
Floyd Abrams

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.
Floyd Abrams

Good, Winning, Battle

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
Walter Cronkite

Birthday, Down, After

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.
Craig Kilborn

Try, Simply, Generous

I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
Ed Bradley

After, Used, Story

When I found out I was going to be on CBS every morning, my first phone call was to Jenny Craig. Ten days later, I'd lost nine pounds. Now I even take the plan's popcorn with me to the movies.
Gayle King

Morning, Movies, Lost

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