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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. "

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. "

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

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

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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. "

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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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" I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. "

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" There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. "

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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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" I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong. "

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

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" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "

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" I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style. "

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

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" I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate. "

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

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

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

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" Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it. "

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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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