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" As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. "

Walter Cronkite

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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. "

" I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. "

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

" I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues. "

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

" I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind. "

" I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am. "

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

" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "

" Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. "

Walter Cronkite

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" 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. "

" Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. "

" I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist. "

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

" 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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" And that's the way it is. "

Walter Cronkite

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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. "

" I think people make way too much of ratings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition. "