Mike Wallace Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Mike Wallace quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased journalist born on May 9, 1918). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 50 we have for him.

“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.”

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

“I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.”

“Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.”

“We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.”

“Yeah, I was a pretty good kid, you know, I was - I was- I was an overachiever and I worked very hard, played a hell of a fiddle.”

“You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.”

“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 of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.”