257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

I’m still ready to go to the moon, if they’ll take me.

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling “civilized?” And yet, in total contradiction, we also persist in the savage belief that we must occasionally, at least, settle our arguments by killing one another.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people’s faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

I’d like to be a song and dance man.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.

We’ve always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you’re finding the bad driving out the good.

We’ve got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there.

We’re living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.