Walter Cronkite Quotes

There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.
There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory.
When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.
With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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Walter Cronkite
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04 November, 1916
DeathDate
17 July, 2009
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