American - Journalist | November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009
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.
Walter Cronkite
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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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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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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 wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.
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I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
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