257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

And that's the way it is.