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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
Friends
Country
Fox
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" If there's anything that's important to a reporter, it is integrity. It is credibility. "
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Credibility
Important
" I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine. "
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Sleep
Wake Up
Up
" 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. "
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Up
Boston
Sun
" 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. "
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Know
Story
Crazy
" I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you feel bad. And I had skinny bow legs. I mean, as a kid growing up, I was an insecure fella. "
Mike Wallace
You
Growing
Feel
" We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions. "
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First
Who
People
" I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' "
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World
People
Me
" I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "
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Still
End
Learning
" I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. "
Mike Wallace
Even
Loved
Questions
" I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person. "
Mike Wallace
I Feel
Person
Feel
" When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. "
Mike Wallace
Mean
Mother
Work
" In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock. "
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Way
Best
Possible
" I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old. "
Mike Wallace
You
Today
Smoking
" I never was the story. The story was the story. Period. "
Mike Wallace
Story
Never
Period
" 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
Walk
Want
Phone
" I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have. "
Mike Wallace
Did
Kids
Should
" I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting. "
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Battles
Urgency
Place
" When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. "
Mike Wallace
Announcer
University
Michigan
" I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts. "
Mike Wallace
More
Going
Become
" I'm a reporter; you can't subpoena people to talk to you. If you write to them and try to call them on the phone and they don't answer or so forth, then take them unawares. "
Mike Wallace
People
Phone
You
" I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. "
Mike Wallace
Myself
Writing
Much
" 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
Acting
Game
" I went to work when I was a young fellow and I loved what I did. And I just kept working. And when I decided that maybe the time had come for me to quit, I got depressed. What could I do if I didn't work? "
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Me
Young
Work
" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "
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Else
One Thing
Thing
" 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
Depression
Good
Yourself
" 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
Eyes
Birthday
Search
" Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. "
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School
Paths
Know
" 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. "
Mike Wallace
Year
September
Job
" I was always nosy and can you imagine a better 60 years, 40 of which or 37 of which traveling any place in the world. "
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Years
Always
You
" There's not a better job in journalism than the one we have, seriously on '60 Minutes' - not a better job. "
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Than
Better
Job