Walter Cronkite Quotes
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If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
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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.
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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.
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And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
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I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
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I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
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I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
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I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
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More details just arrived. These details about the same as previously: President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas; Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called 'Oh, no!'; the motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.
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I think people make way too much of ratings.
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The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
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I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.