A biography for Mike Wallacehasn’t been written yet.
“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 really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.”
“I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.”
“I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.”
“When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.”
“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 be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.”
“You want to put a man at ease.”
“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 could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.”
“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 read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.”
“All I'm armed with is research.”