Walter Cronkite Quotes
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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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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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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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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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
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A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.
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I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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And that's the way it is.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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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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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
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I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.