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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. "

Walter Cronkite

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

" I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry. "

" We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me. "

Walter Cronkite

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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. "

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

" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "

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

" I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. "

" 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. "

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

" Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. "