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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. "

Walter Cronkite

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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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" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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" I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong. "

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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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" 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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" It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. "

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" The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. "

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" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

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

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

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" I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs. "

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" I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "

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

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

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" We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. "

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" I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. "

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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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" When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. "

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" Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well. "

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