I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share
We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share