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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'. — Connie Chung

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

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason. — Will Ferrell

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

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

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start. — Walter Cronkite

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

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

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit. — Douglas Brinkley

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

And that's the way it is. — Walter Cronkite

Television ... is not a substitute for print. — 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

Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite. — Dick Van Dyke

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

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds. — Douglas Brinkley