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I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.
Newseum interview (1996)
I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.
UN Address (1999)
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.
UN Address (1999)
Our forefathers believed that the closer the laws are to the people, the better.
UN Address (1999)
Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.
UN Address (1999)
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.
Free the Airwaves! (2002)
Today we must develop federal structures on a global level.
UN Address (1999)
In their almost miraculous insight, the founders of our country invented "federalism," a concept that is rooted in the rights of the individual.
UN Address (1999)
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
UN Address (1999)
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
Free the Airwaves! (2002)
And that's the way it is. ...[reads date]. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
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.
CBS Evening News Farewell (1981)
Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
On the JFK Assassination (1963)
We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that law and order can be a doublethink version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered for whatever good reason are freedom lost.
From Dallas, Texas, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2:00 Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.
On the JFK Assassination (1963)
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.
UN Address (1999)