Charlie Rose Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

When I think about athletes, probably my favorite guest of all time among baseball players was Ted Williams.

Nighttime, in a nanosecond, asleep by 10:30. No chance I'll get through the day without two naps. Before noon, around 11 A.M. I catch 30 minutes. Living not far from CBS is perfect because afternoons I go home for another.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think the long interview has an important life.

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 want to challenge people to find out who they are.

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

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.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

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

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 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.

Most people have a concentration in particular areas; it might be politics, it might be science, it might be business, it might be sports. I care about all of those, and that's why I've chosen the formats I chose.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

To get everybody working harmoniously together is not a small feat,

Is it a large room or a small room?

The rules for a charter say we only need to have a field of membership of 3,000 people. We have about 4,500 people. And our goal is to raise $3 million. We want it to be financially sound.

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.

It requires a lot of work, but we have a lot of enthusiastic people behind the effort.

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.