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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–1981). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.

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Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Censorship, Democracy, Freedom, Important, Press

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

Democracy, Endangers, Failure, Give, Giving, Political

The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Class, People, Political, Rich, Ruling

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Education, Ignorant, Inspirational, Nation, Price

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

Century, Turbulent, Undoubtedly, Years

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.

Accurately, News, Pretended, Reporter, Skills, Writing

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

Magazines, Objectivity, Opinion, Playboy, Similar

I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

Class, Country, High, Lucky, School

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Inspirational, Success, Accountability, Achieve, Destroying

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.

Love, Play, Tear, Terrible, Usually, Vacation

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.

Closer, Defend, Democracy, People, Wrong, Yield

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is. " To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

Anchorman, Cbs, Decades, Encapsulates, Simple, Two

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

Atheism, Bear, Beliefs, Children, Define, Religious

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.

Clever, Inclined, Karl, Men, Question, Thinking

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

Government, Names, Duty, Know, Right

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Educated, Enough, Leader, Necessary, Perform

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

Become, Campaigns, Discourse, Meaningful, Political

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

Battlefield, Carnage, Coverage, Daily, Public, Vietnamese

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Frank, Music, People, Sinatra, Sings, Sound

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. Probably less.

Love, Men, Somebody, Spend, Spent, Thinking

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