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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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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

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

Interviews, Tough, Duty, Transcend, Lose

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

Ambition, Becoming, Ego

It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.

Cutting, Grandchildren, Thing, Time, Years

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

Magazines, Objectivity, Opinion, Playboy, Similar

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Determine, Job, Jobs, Lying, Patriot, Patriotism

And that's the way it is.

Inspiration, Journalism, Way

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.

Alive, Calendar, Ideas, People, Stars, Years

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power. And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control.

Already, Handful, New York, News Stories, Post, Wall

The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.

Archery, Duck, Ducks, Hunting, Perils

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

Goodbye, Leaving, Long, Possible, San Francisco

It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

Clear, Humanity, Lying, Military, Preemption, Safety

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.

Country, Crucial, Philadelphia, Point, Stage, Today

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Molders, Opinion, Task, Tasks, Telling The Truth, Truth

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

Doctors, Play, Said, Singles, Years

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.

Birthday, Cbs, Day, Regret, Want

For nearly five decades the World Federalists have worked to promote a strengthened UN and more effective institutions of global governance. I offer my personal endorsement. Now a great opportunity has opened for the realization of the dreams of the UN's founders.

Dream, Effective, Five, Opportunity, Realization, Strengthened

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

Inspirational, Moon, Ready, Take, Take Me

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

Censorship, Democracy, Freedom, Important, Press

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

Frank, Music, People, Sinatra, Sings, Sound

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