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

Walter Cronkite

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" I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. "

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

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

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" I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more. "

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" A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

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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 think that our comfort is in our history. "

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

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" Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it. "

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" Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. "

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" 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. "

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

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