Walter Cronkite Quotes
"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
(Related: Information, Needs, Population, President)
"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Act, Leaders)
"There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: People, Ego, Jobs)
"There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Freedom)
"The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Hunting)
"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Job, Public)
"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Truth)
"And that's the way it is."
- Walter Cronkite
"The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Life, Sadness)
"America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Health, America, Care, Caring)
"I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: America, Man)
"Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy."
- Walter Cronkite
"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."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Being, Day, News)
"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Life, Success)
"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."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Competition, Democracy, Media)
"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."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Family, Men, Time)
"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."
- Walter Cronkite
(Related: Birthday, Want)