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

Walter Cronkite

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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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" Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. "

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" I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be. "

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

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" There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. "

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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. "

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" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

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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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" It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role. "

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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 can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am. "

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" With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition. "

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" The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. "

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