Walter Cronkite Quotes
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
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I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
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I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.