Mike Wallace Quotes

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• There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are…
• I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night,…
• All I'm armed with is research.
• Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand…
• I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.
• If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
• As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to…
• My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin…
• I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million…
• It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's job, as you know, is such a joy.
• To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you…
• I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it.
• When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
• Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.
• Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.
• I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And…
• You want to put a man at ease.
• Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
• I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.
• When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

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