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

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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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Walter Leland Cronkite
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Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.
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I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
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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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Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
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And that's the way it is.
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We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
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I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.
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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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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
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We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.
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Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is 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 not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there
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The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
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I'd like to be a song and dance man.
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The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
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