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" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Quit
Family
Think
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" I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be. "
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" The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. "
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Great
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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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" No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing. "
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" When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. "
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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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Career
Copy
" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "
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Care
" I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. "
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" I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake. "
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Think
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" I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. "
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Trusted
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" I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. "
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Need
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" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Fame
Journalism
Kind
" Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. "
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Beyond
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" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Community
Democracy
Knowledge
" The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war. "
Walter Cronkite
Know
Young
War
" In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. "
Walter Cronkite
Sides
Truth
Story
" 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
" I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong. "
Walter Cronkite
Today
Work
Record
" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "
Walter Cronkite
Evening
Think
Great
" Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. "
Walter Cronkite
Men
Acceptance
Attitude
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Leader
Want
Question
" Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. "
Walter Cronkite
His
Famous
Own
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Great
My Life
Sadness
" I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. "
Walter Cronkite
Mom
Hope
Choir
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Say
Matter
Me
" If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy. "
Walter Cronkite
Said
They Say
Say
" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "
Walter Cronkite
Fight
Important
Civil Rights
" 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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Tragedy
Life
World
" I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet. "
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Up
Give
" It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. "
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Understand
Us
Hard