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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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" If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy. "

Walter Cronkite

Said

They Say

Say

" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "

Walter Cronkite

Best

Business

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

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

Walter Cronkite

Give

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. "

" Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised. "

Walter Cronkite

Grandfather

Growing

" 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. "

" No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing. "

" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Say

Matter

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

" I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. "

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

" I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "

" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "

" 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. "

" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "

" You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might. "

" I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more. "

Walter Cronkite

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Same

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

" 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. "