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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Walter Cronkite

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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.
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Our task is not to tell the truth we are opinion molders.
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Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.
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I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.
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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
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In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
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The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.
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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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A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.
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The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
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Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
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I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.
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We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
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The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
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Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.
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There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.
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Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
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