Top 50 Quotes by Mike Wallace

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.

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

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

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

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

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.

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

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.

I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.

You want to put a man at ease.