257 Quotes by Walter Cronkite

If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism -- that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

An incredible reporter and a great writer, but he had a terrible stutter, a terrible stutter.

They're going to have to eat their words. Some of the things I've seen her do on Today when there's breaking news, I thought she's done a fine job. ... Her own journalistic instincts come to the fore.

It's my belief that we should get out now.

I remember her when she was an NBC reporter -- correspondent in Japan -- and I thought she did great work. I haven't watched their morning show that much in late years, but from what I remember then, I can't see how she would lose her ability to be a journalist.

gave the impression of playing a role more than simply trying to deliver the news to the audience.

I don't think any of us saw the long shadow in the newsroom at all.

I don't think those things live forever with the public. They're more likely to live with us journalists than the public itself.

The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The folks in Philadelphia tried to convince us that the Univac didn't have a brain, and that whatever we fed into it would determine what we got out of it.