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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
- Walter Cronkite
#Animal
#Future
#Global Warming
#I Am
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
- Walter Cronkite
#Good
#Journalism
#Politics
#Try
#Us
Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
- Walter Cronkite
#Challenge
#Internet
#Journalism
#Wisdom
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
- Walter Cronkite
#Far
#Hard
#Space
#Understand
#Us
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
- Walter Cronkite
#Marriage
#Media
#Possible
#Process
#Way
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
- Walter Cronkite
#Government
#Peace
#Police
#Step
#World
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
- Walter Cronkite
#Famous
#May
#Own
#Sometimes
#Subject
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.
- Walter Cronkite
#Community
#Democracy
#Failure
#Knowledge
I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
- Walter Cronkite
#Attitude
#I Am
#I Can
#Know
#Mood
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
- Walter Cronkite
#Act
#Educated
#Enough
#Necessary
#Well
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
- Walter Cronkite
#Children
#Death
#Generation
#Opportunity
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
- Walter Cronkite
#Environmental
#Leadership
#Strength
I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.
- Walter Cronkite
#Biased
#Liberal
#Seriously
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
- Walter Cronkite
#Acceptance
#Attitude
#Fight
#Men
#Women
I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
- Walter Cronkite
#Consider
#Leftist
#Liberal
#Necessarily
I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
- Walter Cronkite
#Lost
#Mistake
#Remember
#Secretary
#War
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
- Walter Cronkite
#Desperate
#Evening
#Failure
#Fight
#News
I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.
- Walter Cronkite
#Find
#Job
#Nice
#Retirement
#Time
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
- Walter Cronkite
#Job
#Mirror
#Show
#Tell
#Up
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
- Walter Cronkite
#Comfort
#Constitution
#Enemy
#Treason
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
- Walter Cronkite
#Everything
#Game
#Life
#Person
#Success
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
- Walter Cronkite
#Bible
#Journalism
#Magazine
#Opinion
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
- Walter Cronkite
#Facts
#I Am
#Me
#Mind
#Time
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
- Walter Cronkite
#Both Sides
#Get
#Sides
#Story
#Truth
And that's the way it is.
- Walter Cronkite
#Way
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
- Walter Cronkite
#Democracy
#Journalism
#Make
#Need
#Work
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
- Walter Cronkite
#Daily
#Doing
#Journalism
#News
#Politics
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.
- Walter Cronkite
#Birthday
#Day
#Down
#Every Day
#Want
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
- Walter Cronkite
#America
#Care
#Caring
#Health
#System
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
- Walter Cronkite
#Either
#Free
#Freedom
#Little
#Thing
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