257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.

It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.

To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.

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

Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.

We're an ignorant nation right now. We're not really capable, I do not think, the majority of our people, of making the decisions that have to be made at election time and particularly in the selection of their legislatures and their Congress and the presidency, of course. I don't think we're bright enough to do the job that would preserve our democracy, our republic. I think we're in serious danger.

Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to have to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process.

The very first day we were there, ... I started getting notes in my box to call this Bernard Shaw.