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Walter Cronkite
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Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
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News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
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For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders.
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News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.
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We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years I had a magazine route very early on - I must have been about seven or eight years old or something like that - when I was carrying Liberty magazine, trying to win green and brown coupons I eventually [won] a pony.
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I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.
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When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.
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The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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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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The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
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Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.
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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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I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.
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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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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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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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Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there
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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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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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