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" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "
Walter Cronkite
Fight
Important
Civil Rights
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" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "
Walter Cronkite
Landing
Best
Moon
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Moon
History
Man
" There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. "
Walter Cronkite
More
People
Realize
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Peace
Conflict
Government
" Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was. "
Walter Cronkite
Live
Day
Doing
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Time
Thought
Friends
" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "
Walter Cronkite
Politics
My Life
Through
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Say
You
Understand
" I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. "
Walter Cronkite
Mom
Hope
Choir
" I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.' "
Walter Cronkite
Role
Evening
Managing
" I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it. "
Walter Cronkite
I Am
Animal
Future
" Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. "
Walter Cronkite
Need
Democracy
Journalism
" I think people make way too much of ratings. "
Walter Cronkite
Too
Too Much
Way
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Leader
Want
Question
" Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions. "
Walter Cronkite
Internet
Interesting
Challenge
" Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. "
Walter Cronkite
News
Every Day
Day
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Vietnam
Thought
People
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Preparation
Understanding
Journalism
" Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. "
Walter Cronkite
Impact
Beyond
Subject
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Journalism
Daily
Politics
" Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. "
Walter Cronkite
Giving
Constitution
Comfort
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Well
Evening
News
" On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way. "
Walter Cronkite
Television
Road
Prejudice
" Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it. "
Walter Cronkite
Would
World
War
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Moving
Competition
Think
" The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war. "
Walter Cronkite
Know
Young
War
" 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. "
Walter Cronkite
Democracy
Nation
Future
" 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
Me
I Am
Facts
" No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing. "
Walter Cronkite
Got
Think
Dinosaur
" I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. "
Walter Cronkite
Managing
Analyst
Editor