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Walter Cronkite [1916-2009] American
Rank: 101
Journalist, Broadcaster


Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years. 

Birthday, Freedom, Health, Life, Success, Truth



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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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And that's the way it is.
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. Truth
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. Life, Success
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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.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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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
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. Freedom
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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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.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. Health
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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.
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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
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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.
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