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

Walter Cronkite

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" I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself. "

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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. "

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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. "

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" The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon. "

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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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" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "

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

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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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" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "

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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 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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" 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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" 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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" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "

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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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" 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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