Walter Cronkite

Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a…

— Walter Cronkite

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

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

— Walter Cronkite

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

— 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

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

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure…

— Walter Cronkite

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United…

— Walter Cronkite

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot…

— Walter Cronkite

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.

— Walter Cronkite

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.

— Walter Cronkite

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,…

— Walter Cronkite

A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for…

— Walter Cronkite

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to…

— Walter Cronkite

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a…

— Walter Cronkite

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,

— Walter Cronkite

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far…

— Walter Cronkite

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case…

— Walter Cronkite

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have…

— Walter Cronkite

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

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

— Walter Cronkite

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

— Walter Cronkite

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping…

— Walter Cronkite

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain…

— Walter Cronkite

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United…

— Walter Cronkite