Walter Cronkite Quotes

American - Journalist | November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.

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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

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We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.

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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

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I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.

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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.

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