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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

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.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

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

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

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

Be kind to an old man.

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.

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

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

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.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past,

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

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

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

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

The ruling class is the rich ... And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

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

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

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

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

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

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

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

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

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.

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

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

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

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

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.

And that's the way it is.

Television ... is not a substitute for print.

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.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.