Walter Cronkite Quotes - Page 3

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• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

  Walter Cronkite

  Media, Tiny, Pills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd like to be a song and dance man.

  Walter Cronkite

  Song, Men, Song And Dance

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• Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Friday, Justice

  CBS Evening News Farewell, 1981.

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• Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

  Walter Cronkite

  Nice, Thinking, Guy

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• For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

  Walter Cronkite

  Mind, Speak, Propose

  "United Nations, National Sovereignty and the Future of the World". Speech upon receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award, the UN Delegates Dining Room, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. October 19, 1999.

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• The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

  Walter Cronkite

  Winning, Battle, Pay

  "Free the Air Waves!" by Walter Cronkite, www.gothamgazette.com. November 4, 2002.

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• The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

  Walter Cronkite

  Iraq, Invasion, Politics

  "Our Troops Must Leave Iraq" by Walter Cronkite and David Krieger, www.commondreams.org. December 4, 2007.

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• Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.

  Walter Cronkite

  Country, Philadelphia, Today

  Address on receiving the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award at the UN Delegates Dining Room, October 19, 1999.

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• A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good and their own survival, yield up their precious sovereignty.

  Walter Cronkite

  Order, World Government, Yield

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• Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

  Walter Cronkite

  Giving, Political, Democracy

  "Free the Air Waves!" by Walter Cronkite, www.gothamgazette.com. November 4, 2002.

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• To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

  Walter Cronkite

  Yield, People, Democracy

  "Final Words: Cronkite's Vietnam Commentary". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. July 18, 2009.

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• This opens the door on another chapter of history.

  Walter Cronkite

  Inspiration, Humor, Doors

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• I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.

  Walter Cronkite

  Determination, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.

  Walter Cronkite

  Love, Vacation, Play

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. September 30, 2005.

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• So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

  Walter Cronkite

  Clever, Men, Thinking

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• We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.

  Walter Cronkite

  Rooms, Telephones, Bars

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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.

  Walter Cronkite

  Challenges, President, Population

  "Studio Briefing", movieweb.com. August 18, 2004.

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• Television... is not a substitute for print.

  Walter Cronkite

  Television, Substitutes, Print

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• I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years; I had a magazine route very early on - I must have been about seven or eight years old or something like that - when I was carrying Liberty magazine, trying to win green and brown coupons; I eventually [won] a pony.

  Walter Cronkite

  Winning, Years, Eight

  Source: www.midtod.com

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• It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.

  Walter Cronkite

  God, Time, Future

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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.

  Walter Cronkite

  Workout, Sadness, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

  Walter Cronkite

  Stars, Years, Ideas

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• News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

  Walter Cronkite

  America, News, Reporters

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• I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

  Walter Cronkite

  Writing, Skills, News

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

  Walter Cronkite

  Thinking, Wife, Important

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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