Walter Cronkite Quotes
-
I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
-
I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.
-
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Democracy, civilization itself, is at stake. Within the next few years we must change the basic structure of our global community from the present anarchic system of war and ever more destructive weaponry to a new system governed by a democratic UN federation.
-
If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.
-
It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
-
It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role.
-
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
-
Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability.
-
More details just arrived. These details about the same as previously: President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas; Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called 'Oh, no!'; the motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal.
-
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
-
I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
-
I regret that, in our attempt to establish some standards, we didn't make them stick. We couldn't find a way to pass them on to another generation, really.
-
I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more.
-
And that's the way it is. ...reads date. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.
-
I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
-
Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers.
-
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
-
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.
-
I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
-
I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.
-
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
-
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 any more time with their family.
-
I think people make way too much of ratings.
-
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.