Walter Cronkite

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

— Walter Cronkite

The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends…

— Walter Cronkite

There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.

— Walter Cronkite

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

— Walter Cronkite

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

— Walter Cronkite

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

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will…

— Walter Cronkite

It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.

— Walter Cronkite

I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on…

— Walter Cronkite

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our…

— Walter Cronkite

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

— Walter Cronkite

I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the…

— Walter Cronkite

It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all…

— Walter Cronkite

Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have…

— Walter Cronkite

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

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are…

— Walter Cronkite

Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be…

— Walter Cronkite

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

— Walter Cronkite

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

— Walter Cronkite

I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we…

— Walter Cronkite

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

— Walter Cronkite

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage…

— Walter Cronkite

The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization…

— Walter Cronkite

A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times…

— 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