Charlie Rose Quotes

I love Italy so much, I want to change it in order to make sure it can be all that it can.

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

The more patient we are, the closer the Iranians get to a nuclear weapon.

When you limit a woman's potential, you limit your own.

America was, in the eyes of so many people, and it's what people respect America for, it is people have been able to come here, find a place, contribute to the economy. That's what immigration has been in America.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

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.

Every other word out of every other Chinese mouth is "development, development, development, development." And that's what they're talking about it - because they believe it, A, enables them, with development, to have the kind of status they want in the world, and B, it enables them to deal with their internal problems, having to do with poverty, urban-rural as well as the environment.

The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.

At the end, regret only what you didn't do.

The question is just as important as the answer.

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.

Sometimes you lose some tournaments you should win and you win some you should lose.

Gary Player and others have said all of us should all give Arnold Palmer a percentage of our earnings because without you there would be no television contracts and without you it wouldn't be as good for anyone.

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

It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.

There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

There's some people who say big philanthropy is not such a good idea, meaning that somehow you have enormous power and you're not elected and that that may not be such a good idea to have people with enormous wealth to have so much influence.