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Everybody who's in the news business today was influenced in a positive way by Walter Cronkite. He had ability, humility and integrity, a rare combination.

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Roger Ailes
Age: 77 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 15
Died: 2017
Died: May 18
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Anybody's position on an issue, anything they've said about an issue, and any way they've voted on an issue is fair game. You have every right to question that and go after it aggressively.
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When the media gets into creating their own product and then deciding to cover it, they are becoming part of the process and, therefore, could be damaged.
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I only understand friendship or scorched earth.
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One of the reasons I'm in this business is because I have absolute respect for the people who say, You know what? I think I can make this a little better and I'm willing to get in and try. Because, I'll tell you, there are a hell of a lot of reasons to stay away from running for office today.
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I don't care what the polls say.
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CNN International, Al-Jazeera and BBC are the same in how they report mostly that America is wrong and bad.
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The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.
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Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time.
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I think it's because I'm unpredictable. I view every situation, every race, and every candidate differently I try not to rely on something that worked before.
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Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.
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Don't back off on traditional values. It's important to show respect and tolerance for others, but they must show the same respect for your values. Tolerance is a two-way street.
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I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.
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It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.
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Reporters may be friendly-but if you get through life without having a reporter as a friend, that may be an advantage. If you insist on having one as a friend, don't do interviews with him.
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If you want to get unpaid media coverage, you had better be quotable. It's an interesting problem, because very few candidates are quotable.
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Just because somebody else likes a candidate doesn't necessarily mean everybody else will like him.
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Almost everything I do is related to my ability to hire good people. I don't take much of the credit myself. I think I have a good eye.
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I think the worst decision is usually no decision. If you make the wrong decision you can usually course-correct, but if you don't make it, you've already made it, and it's usually the bad one.
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You can get people the qualifications But you can't teach them the qualities they're going to need. You can't teach integrity, a drive for excellence, refusal to quit under pressure. It's too late to build that into people you're going to hire.
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