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" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "
Walter Cronkite
Landing
Best
Moon
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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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" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "
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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 think that our comfort is in our history. "
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" I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition. "
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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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" 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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" There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. "
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" We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I think people make way too much of ratings. "
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" Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it. "
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" 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. "
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Every Day
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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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Informed
Need
News
" 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. "
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" I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. "
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" There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. "
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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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" No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing. "
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" I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since. "
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" I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing. "
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" On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way. "
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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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" It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. "
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" All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. "
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