CRAIG KILBORN: I always wanted to ask reporters this because everyone criticizes, they say it's the liberal media and something. Well, I'm sensing some of you on 60 Minutes--you guys are Republican, aren't you?
LESLEY STAHL: You're asking me [gestures to herself] if I'm a Republican?
KILBORN: Yeah, aren't you?
STAHL: You're asking me [gestures to herself] if I'm a Republican?
KILBORN: Yeah.
STAHL: You don't know.
I'm going to tell you a secret. As a reporter, I had all my opinions surgically removed.
KILBORN: Is that how it works? [Laughter from audience]
STAHL: Absolutely.
KILBORN: Do you have to be--
STAHL: Just taken out [gestures as if things are taken out of head].
KILBORN: Do you have to be careful, or--yeah? Very--
STAHL: Come one.
KILBORN: Yeah, very much so, right?
STAHL: Totally.
KILBORN: So you don't vote, do you?
STAHL: No, I actually--[laughter from audience]--vote.
KILBORN: You do vote.
STAHL: Of course I vote.
KILBORN: You're happy who's in the office? Okay.
STAHL: Don't go there.
KILBORN: All right.
--Lesley Stahl and Craig Kilborn on CBS's the Late Late Show, July 23, 2003.