Walter Cronkite citations

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“We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.”

“I think that our comfort is in our history.”

“Under the Constitution giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.”

“There is no such thing as a little freedom.Either you are all free,or you are not free.”

“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.”

“The civil rights fight was a very important fight.”

“On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.”

“The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.”

“With all this dolling up and featuring of the news,it's getting harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.”

“Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means,we would eliminate it.”

“I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast,for instance,were unsponsored and unrated.”

“Court proceeding,except for certain limited situations,are open to the public.This is for the protection of the accused,to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.”

“I have never voted a party line.I vote on the individual and the issues.”

“With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy,tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random,our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.”

“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.”

“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”

“I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious,serious mistake.”

“I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.”

“I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam,and it was that we better get out of this.”