Walter Cronkite Quotes
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Professions & Work“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 CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“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 CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow.”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ 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. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programs have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got. ”
Walter CronkiteQuotes
Professions & Work“ For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible... Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. ”
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