Mike Wallace Quotes

• 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.

  Mike Wallace

  Path, Safe, Licking

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• If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.

  Mike Wallace

  Integrity, Important, Credibility

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• Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

  Mike Wallace

  Country, People, Foxes

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• All I'm armed with is research.

  Mike Wallace

  Research

  "Mike Wallace Dead: '60 Minutes' Icon Dies At 93" by Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2012.

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• 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

  Jobs, Joy, Way

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

  Mike Wallace

  Battle, Urgency

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• I cannot improve on those spoken for many years by a true legend who preceded me at CBS News. He would say, simply, 'good night, and good luck.'

  Mike Wallace

  Good Night, Good Luck, Years

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• 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.

  Mike Wallace

  Birthday, Eye, Long

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• I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

  Mike Wallace

  Years, Games, Acting

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, edition.cnn.com. May 21, 2006.

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• Both 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

  Boston, Russia, Rose

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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