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

Walter Cronkite

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

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" A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. "

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

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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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" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "

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" We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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

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" Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers. "

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" A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. "

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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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" I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing. "

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

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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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