Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace
Myron Leon "Mike" Wallacewas an American journalist, game show host, actor and media personality. He interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his sixty-year career. He was one of the original correspondents for CBS' 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 May 1918
CountryUnited States of America
That's like a smack in the face before you even get started. I guess you can always be a critic when you're standing on the outside.
You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,
She's of a certain age now. She doesn't want to keep getting on planes. She's very wise to do what she's doing.
Shake it off and get back in there, ... The thing that is going to make a difference is you shaking it off.
My 40 years with CBS News have been a fascinating voyage of discovery. Thirty-seven years with '60 Minutes' have given me the chance to travel the globe, meet and report on world issues, and broadcast what I've learned to an audience at home that had long trusted CBS News reporters like Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid.
Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.
There are too many people out there like that -- and what's on the scoreboard is important -- but there is a lot more to football.
When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News.
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.
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.'
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.
If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility.
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.
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.