American - Journalist | May 9, 1918 - April 7, 2012
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
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I'm nearing the end of the road and still learning.
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I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.
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We were the first people who did investigative stuff, who asked occasionally abrasive, occasionally confrontational questions.
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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.
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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.
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I don't think I have the face - may have the voice but not the demeanor for an anchor. And I defied it.
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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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I cared enough to read and look at and worry about the questions.
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I love the urgency of what we do. I like the battles that take place, the jousting.
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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.
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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.
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