“I want everybody to see Pearl on CBS Sunday Morning. I promised Pearl that I would try and get this in the local paper so the people here could see what he has done. I'm proud when anybody does well - and he sure has. He worked for it, it wasn't given to him.”
Robert Thornton
“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
“On CBS, as long as I stay younger than Mike Wallace and Dan Rather, I'm OK.”
William Petersen
“I wasn't behind the closed doors (when CBS executives discussed it). But they didn't put it in a negative way that way. I think it was more about going after a younger audience and finding something that might have more life.”
Michael Rauch
“My wife expects me to be on a plane to Rome for the CBS screening of the CBS TV movie about Pope John Paul . The screening is at the Vatican on the 17th, and I've got to be on the plane on the 16th, so I'm hoping we can conclude the deal by the 15th, which is deadline, so I can please Hideki and please my wife ? and meet the pope.”
Arn Tellem
“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.”
Richard Salant
“I don't know, I've never been to this event before - it's CBS.”
Tom Brokaw
