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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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Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.
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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
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So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.
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For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.
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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
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The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.
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I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!
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I'd like to be a song and dance man.
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To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past.
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I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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Be kind to an old man.
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If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.
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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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Television... is not a substitute for print.
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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 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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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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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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