All Mike Wallace Quotes
- 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… Ashamed
- 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,… Cannot Improve
- All I'm armed with is research. All
- 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… Balanced
- I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. Battle
- If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. 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… Among
- 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… Backside
- 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… Acting
- 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. Along
- 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… Air
- I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. Asked
- When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. Ann Arbor
- Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. Attended
- Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. 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… Acne
- You want to put a man at ease. Ease
- Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. Answer
- I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. Period
- When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. Came
- Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too. America
- I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. Any
- Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a… Fiddle
- The problem became this: We became a caricature of ourselves. We were after light, and it began to look as though we were after heat,… Became
- We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions. Abrasive