Books Quote by Mike Wallace

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.

— Mike Wallace

“Residents grimly spoke of the crisis as “O Grab Me”—“embargo” spelled backward.”

— Mike Wallace

“The key to success in the Gold Room was information. Knowledge of a battle’s outcome obtained an hour before one’s competitors could be parlayed…

— Mike Wallace

“When the popular actor John Hodgkinson appeared in the red coat of a British officer, hecklers wouldn’t allow him to continue until he had…

— Mike Wallace

When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.

— Mike Wallace

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our…

— Mike Wallace

“Warner took to writing in hopes of making money and submitted a pious and sentimental novel to Harpers, which rebuffed it with the single…

— Mike Wallace

“Horace Greeley cautioned one upstate hopeful: “You do not realize how little the mere talent of writing well has to do with success or…

— Mike Wallace

“Political editors were a truculent breed. Leggett’s boss, William Cullen Bryant, took a cowskin whip to William Leete Stone of the Commercial Advertiser in…

— Mike Wallace

But I was never, you know, when I see some kids today who are close to their parents, close to their friends... I think…

— Mike Wallace

“And among the prissiest. Gilder’s method of raising public standards of taste and morality required the production of bloodless pages. As custodian of genteel…

— Mike Wallace

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September…

— Mike Wallace