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

Walter Cronkite

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" I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go. "

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

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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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" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

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" 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. "

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

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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 take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate. "

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" 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. "

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

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" I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely. "

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

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" I think people make way too much of ratings. "

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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 certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "

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" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "

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" I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. "

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" I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet. "

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" I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am. "

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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 am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. "

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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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