Assignment Quote by Mike Wallace

Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about…

— Shana Alexander

There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job.

— Mike Wallace

The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,'…

— Michael Hastings

I've been doing Nixon pretty much my whole professional life. I was in this comedy group called the Credibility Gap in Los Angeles when…

— Harry Shearer

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get…

— P. J. O'Rourke

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

— David Strathairn

After leaving 'Vice Magazine' a couple of years ago and working only part time on boring administration stuff, I made antagonizing the press almost…

— Gavin McInnes

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

— James L. Brooks

The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on…

— Robert Redford

“I should create a TV show called 61 Minutes. It’ll be like 60 Minutes—only more.”

— Jarod Kintz

Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well.…

— Walter Cronkite

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.

— Dick Van Dyke