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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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" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Pride

Career

Copy

" I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this. "

" The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. "

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

" And that's the way it is. "

Walter Cronkite

Way

" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "

Walter Cronkite

Best

Business

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.' "

" 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. "

" It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. "

" 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. "

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

" The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon. "

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Constitution

Think

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

" 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. "

" It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. "

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

Walter Cronkite

Give

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "

Walter Cronkite

Cry

" On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way. "

" 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. "

" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "

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