I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We've got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have… — 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
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the]… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings. — 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
