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Walter Cronkite Quote: “I’m very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he’ll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.”

51. “I’m very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he’ll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.”

52. “Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.”

53. “Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

54. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

55. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Dan Rather and I just aren’t especially chummy.”

56. “Dan Rather and I just aren’t especially chummy.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

57. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling “civilized?” And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.”

58. “For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling “civilized?” And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.”

59. “Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

60. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.”

61. “I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

62. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Everybody knows that there’s a liberal, that there’s a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.”

63. “Everybody knows that there’s a liberal, that there’s a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.”

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Walter Cronkite Quote: “When you’re bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.”

64. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there.”

65. “Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.”

66. “I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.”

67. “Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “I’m still ready to go to the moon, if they’ll take me.”

68. “I’m still ready to go to the moon, if they’ll take me.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.”

69. “The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.”

70. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

71. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.”

72. “I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.”

— Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite Quote: “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.”

73. “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

Walter Cronkite Quote: “I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.”

74. “I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.”

— Walter Cronkite

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