Walter Cronkite Quotes

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
And that's the way it is.
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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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 away from that.
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 want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Walter Cronkite
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04 November, 1916
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17 July, 2009
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