In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
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 feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. — 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.' — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
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 Image
