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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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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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Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
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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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Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
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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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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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We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
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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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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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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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Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there
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Our task is not to tell the truth we are opinion molders.
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I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists.
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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 never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
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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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The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
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