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" Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence. "

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" I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. "

Walter Cronkite

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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. "

" I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. "

" 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. "

" In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously. "

" The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon. "

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

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" Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it. "

" 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. "

" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

" I think that our comfort is in our history. "

" We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons. "

" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "

" Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well. "

Walter Cronkite

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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. "

Walter Cronkite

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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. "

Walter Cronkite

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" I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. "

" Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was. "

" I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it. "

" 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. "

" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

" I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law. "

" 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. "

" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "

" No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing. "

" I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "

" Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial. "