Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot … - Walter Cronkite

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You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

Walter Cronkite

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Ethics, Flourish, Government, Integrity, People, Public

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We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

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Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.

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

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The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

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The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

Biases, Ethic, Ethics, Prejudice, Prejudices, Print

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You might occasionally feel that some people are standing in the way and slowing your progress, but in reality the biggest person standing in your way is you. Others can stop you temporarily -- you are the only one who can do it permanently.

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William Shakespeare

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.

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Gillian Anderson

You're only given as much as you can handle at any given time. Whether it's true or not, it gives you the strength.

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Albert Einstein

I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

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The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

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