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" 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. "

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Mike Wallace

Know

Way

Why

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist. "

Mike Wallace

You

Want

" 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. "

" 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.' "

Mike Wallace

World

People

" 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. "

" When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

Sun

" Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether. "

" You want to put a man at ease. "

" I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself. "

" Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds. "

" I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

Mike Wallace

Young

Work

" When I came to CBS it was the mother church. I mean that was - everybody wanted to go to work for CBS News. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

Going

Become

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

" 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'm nearing the end of the road and still learning. "

" I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. "

" All I'm armed with is research. "

Mike Wallace

Research

Armed