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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. "

Walter Cronkite

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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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" I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases. "

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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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" 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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" I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition. "

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

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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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" Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence. "

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

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

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" We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart. "

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

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" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

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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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" The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not. "

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" I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. "

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

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

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

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" I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. "

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

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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 worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. "

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

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