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We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
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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Walter Leland Cronkite
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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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I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.
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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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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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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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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
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Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
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It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
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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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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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Be kind to an old man.
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When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
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We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
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I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
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