Walter Cronkite Quotes

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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.
It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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.
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.
The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.
The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.
The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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Walter Cronkite
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04 November, 1916
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17 July, 2009
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