American - Journalist | November 4, 1916 - July 17, 2009
Anchormen shouldn't cry.
Walter Cronkite
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
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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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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
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I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
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