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Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
The ruling class is the rich.... And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
We’ve always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you’re finding the bad driving out the good (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. 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 (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they’re not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they’re preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can’t be very good journalists (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
Everybody knows that there’s a liberal, that there’s a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it’s a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they’re not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I’m afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don’t think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We’re living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Walter Cronkite Quotes)
When you’re bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides (Walter Cronkite Quotes)