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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

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" Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. "

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

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

" We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain. "

" 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 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. "

" For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous. "

" 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 never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs. "

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

" I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry. "