Mike Wallace Quotes

As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.

I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.

My mentor is Alastair Burnet, the greatest news anchor Britain has had.

Gravitas is the soup bone in the stew of television news.

Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.

Craigslist is about authenticity. Craig has paid his dues, and people respect him.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

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

I started off wanting very much to be a newscaster.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

Walter Cronkite was a personally decent and convivial man, who literally couldn't kill a fly, was kind to his children, generally helpful to juniors, authentically curious about the news, and, in his time, an energetic reporter.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

My dear friend Jimmie Dodd was the heart and the soul of The Mickey Mouse Club.

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.'

Meet the Press is not just another news show but is history in the making.

Bob Taft is Mr. Republican, Mr. America, and Mr. Integrity.

It’s a lot easier and cheaper to have thumbsuckers and pundits on television than it is to have reporters and news bureaus around the world.

There are a lot of people who think our job is to reassure the public every night that their home, their community and their nation is safe. I don't subscribe to that at all. I subscribe to leaving people with essentially … a rough draft of history. Some days it's reassuring, some days it's absolutely destructive.

If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.

For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'

I worked for CBS News in the aftermath of all the greatness. I actually brought coffee to Edward R. Murrow.

I wanted to be a journalist so the character of a TV news person in 'Run Baby Run' was really interesting.

Getting involved in a newsroom and seeing how it operated and the urgency of live television really got my attention.