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

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.

All I'm armed with is research.

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.'

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

Both 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 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.