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" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Ahead

War

Small

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" Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised. "

Walter Cronkite

Grandfather

Growing

" I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. "

Walter Cronkite

You

Information

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

" 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. "

" I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. "

" With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story. "

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

I Am

Facts

" I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind. "

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Need

Same

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "

Walter Cronkite

Cry

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

" As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue. "