Top 50 Quotes by Mike Wallace

About Mike Wallace

These are some quotes by American author Mike Wallace Journalist, who lived between May 9, 1918 and April 7, 2012.

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.

Mike Wallace

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

Mike Wallace

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 Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Mike Wallace

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, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.

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, not to reveal some information or not to find out the story.

Mike Wallace

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

You know, you become crazy. I had done a story for '60 Minutes' on depression previously, but I had no idea that I was now experiencing it. Finally, I collapsed and just went to bed.

Mike Wallace

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

Mike Wallace

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

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

Mike Wallace

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.

Mike Wallace

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.

Mike Wallace

What's an ambush interview? You walk up to a fellow who you want to talk to, and he hasn't been - he hadn't been willing to talk to you before. You've sent him letters, and you've tried to talk to him on the phone. So you walk up to him on the street and ask him a question - that's an ambush?

Mike Wallace

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