American - Journalist | November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
Walter Cronkite
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
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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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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
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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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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
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