Walter Cronkite Quotes

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Walter Cronkite

Profession : Journalist

Birth : November 4, 1916

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

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There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

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Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.

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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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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

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The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'

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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.

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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

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I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.

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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

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I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.

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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

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I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

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