257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

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

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Would it be better to have a president who cries easily? Well, that depends on what he cried about. I would not like the thought of a president who could not cry. That would be worse than one who cried over the right things. Which, in this case, would be the things I would cry over.

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

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.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.