257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

I’ve gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one’s prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

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

Dan Rather and I just aren’t especially chummy.

There is a compulsion that is perhaps the heart of life’s meanings, this marvelous mystery of blood ties that brings joy whenever a new family member comes on the scene.

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 profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know – not what they want to know.

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism – that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.