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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. "

Walter Cronkite

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" Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience. "

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" I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get. "

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

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" Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial. "

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

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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 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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" 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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" Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. "

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" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

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

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

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

Walter Cronkite

" I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" I think that our comfort is in our history. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" 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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