Lesley Stahl Quotes

#1. I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.

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#2. I am convinced there's a gramma gene that disables the word "no.

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#3. It is actually against the law for a citizen to give money to a terrorist.

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#4. This is the only time in our lives we fall madly in love before we know what the person is like. ~Ellen Goodman

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#5. Becoming a gran exhilarated me with a new purpose. The change was so big & granular & unexpected, I wanted to understand it. .,.. Does it happen this way to all grandmothers?

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#6. The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother?

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#7. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it?

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#8. When I told him about Jordan, out flashed pictures of his grandkids. This was how I was introduced to the secret society of grans. We're instant compatriots. If you want to break the ice with someone who's in the society, all you have to do is ask, "So how old is yours?

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#9. I thought administration was the running of the office. The Xerox machine. Paying bills.

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#10. Everybody knows if it's on the Internet, some brilliant hacker can get at it.

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#11. I can't tell people what flag to fly.

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#12. Then, wham! My first grandchild was born... I was jolted, blindsided by a wallop of loving more intense than anything I could remember or had ever imagined.

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#13. Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

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#14. In various surveys, nearly three-quarters of grandparents say that being a grandparent is the single most important and satisfying thing in their life. Most say being with their grandkids is more important to them than traveling or having financial security.

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#15. You never know when the best day of your life is going to be.

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