Walter Cronkite Quotes

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• I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.
• There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life's meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family…
• It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just…
• The fact that you are here tonight gathered together with us testifies to the fact you understand the need for this organization and the need…
• Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly.…
• I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent…
• The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation…
• Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a…
• Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask…
• Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.
• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving…
• Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
• Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.
• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting…
• I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the…
• I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't…
• To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the…
• When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was,…
• It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate,

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