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Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.
— Walter Cronkite
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
The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.
— Walter Cronkite
The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
— Walter Cronkite
As Walter Cronkite would say, that's the way it is.
— Howard Fineman
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
— Walter Cronkite
Be kind to an old man.
— Walter Cronkite
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.
— Walter Cronkite
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
— Walter Cronkite
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
— Walter Cronkite
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
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
— Walter Cronkite
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,
— Walter Cronkite
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.
— 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
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.
— Walter Cronkite
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
— Walter Cronkite
The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
— Walter Cronkite
The ruling class is the rich ... And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
— Walter Cronkite
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
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.
— Walter Cronkite
News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.
— Walter Cronkite
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
— Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
— Douglas Brinkley
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
— Walter Cronkite
This opens the door on another chapter of history.
— Walter Cronkite
Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
— Walter Cronkite
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
— Walter Cronkite
It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.
— Nathan Hill
I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
— Ben Bradlee
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I'd like to be a song and dance man.
— Walter Cronkite
The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.
— Walter Cronkite
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you'll lose a friend.
— Walter Cronkite
Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.
— David Halberstam
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
— Walter Cronkite
I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.
— Will Ferrell
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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.
— Walter Cronkite
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I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.
— Walter Cronkite
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there
— Walter Cronkite
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
— Walter Cronkite
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
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
— Walter Cronkite
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
— Walter Cronkite
If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.
— Douglas Brinkley
I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.
— Walter Cronkite
Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
— Dick Van Dyke
Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.
— Walter Cronkite
Television ... is not a substitute for print.
— Walter Cronkite
And that's the way it is.
— Walter Cronkite
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.
— Walter Cronkite
When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.
— Douglas Brinkley
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
— Walter Cronkite
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.
— Walter Cronkite
People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.
— Walter Cronkite
Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
— Douglas Brinkley
Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.
— Walter Cronkite