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“I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Loyalty #Party #Independent
“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
“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Freedom #4th Of July #Littles
“I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Today #Looks #Tomorrow
“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Appreciation #Moon #Cities
“Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Goodbye #San Francisco #Long
“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Truth #Two Sides #Stories
“America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Health #Caring #America
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Inspirational #Education #Ignorant
“Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Tasks #Opinion #Telling The Truth
“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.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Moving #Thinking #Media
“The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Hunting #Ducks #Duck Hunting
“Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Jobs #Mirrors #Shows
“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Success #Principles #Achieve
“Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#War #Government #Dreamer
“People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#People #Sound #Frank
“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.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#New York #Wall #Stories
“I'd like to be a song and dance man.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Song #Men
“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

#Littles #Tablets #Tiny
“And that's the way it is.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Way #Journalism
“We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Leader #Enough #Educated
“Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Air #Impact #Television
“Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations, covers county courts, brought up that way, has to have a degree of humanity that people who do not have that exposure don't have, and some people interpret that to be liberal. It's not a liberal, it's humanitarian and that's a vastly different thing.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#People #Police #Humanity
“I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Kissing #Men #Thinking
“There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Heart #Blood #Ties
“The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#People #Needs #Want
“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
“Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Commitment #Needs #Moments
“In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.”
-- Walter Cronkite

#Freedom #Years #Able
“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

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