Charlie Rose

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.

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.

I want to challenge people to find out who they 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.

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

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.

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.

I think the long interview has an important life.

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.