There’s not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on ’60 Minutes’ – not a better job. Mike Wallace Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Rooney, of course, he believes that he is the reason that people stick around all the way through the show. They’ll put up with anything, you know, in order to get to Rooney, and that’s why we’re at number 16 or 14 or whatever. Mike Wallace Read Quote
I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don’t use that word. Mike Wallace Read Quote
We used to sit around and chortle, ‘Look what this guy said five years ago, and today look what he’s doing. Let’s stick it to him!’ It’s as simple as that, I swear. Mike Wallace Read Quote
I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. Mike Wallace Read Quote
In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and I were determined to maintain the candid, sometimes combative style we’d introduced on ‘Night Beat.’ But that proved easier said than done. Mike Wallace Read Quote
Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. Mike Wallace Read Quote
