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

Walter Cronkite

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

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" 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. "

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

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" The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. "

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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. "

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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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" Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible. "

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

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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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" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

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

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" And that's the way it is. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "

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" If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing. "

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

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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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" We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart. "

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

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" There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering. "

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