257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.

So now the question is, basically, right now, how will the Osama Bin Laden tape affect the election? And I have a feeling that it could tilt the election a bit. In fact, I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, that he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion journals and all the rest of it. I think it's terribly important that this be taught in the public schools, because otherwise, we're gonna get to a situation because of economic pressures and other things where television's all you've got left. And that would be disastrous. We can't cover the news in a half-hour event evening. That's ridiculous.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.