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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. "

Walter Cronkite

Political

Evening

Pressure

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. "

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

" With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story. "

" Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. "

" 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. "

" It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. "

Walter Cronkite

Understand

Hard

" 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. "

" 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

Say

Matter

" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "

" Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. "

" I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet. "

Walter Cronkite

Give

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

" 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. "

" 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

Just

Out

" I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. "

" 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. "

" Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. "

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

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

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Try

Politics

" I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage. "

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

" I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. "