Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Quote by Walter Cronkite

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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life...

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life...

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which...

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which...

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs...

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs...

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men...

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men...

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

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

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has...

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has...

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

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

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which...

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which...

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

And that's the way it is.

And that's the way it is.

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

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

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic...

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic...

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an...

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you...

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you...

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the...

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the...

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they...

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they...

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches

Knowledge helps dormant intelligence to awake and become conscious which automatically brings so many additional...

Knowledge helps dormant intelligence to awake and become conscious which automatically brings so many additional...

Your library is your portrait.

Your library is your portrait.