257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.

I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing.

Anchormen shouldn't cry.

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.

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.