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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
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Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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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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We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
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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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Our task is not to tell the truth we are opinion molders.
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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 want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
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Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
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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.
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
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It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
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The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
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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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Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
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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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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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