Walter Cronkite Quotes

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
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 don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.
I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.
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.
I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.
I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.
I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.
I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
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Walter Cronkite
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04 November, 1916
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17 July, 2009
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