58 Walter Cronkite Quotes for You to Enjoy

Walter Cronkite

American Journalist

Born: Nov 4, 1916

Died: Jul 17, 2009

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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. Walter Cronkite

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

Truth You Sides Seeking Both Both Sides Get Story

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. Walter Cronkite

Time Me Suits Mind Party Group Liberal Defines Those Definitions Some Facts Makes Am His Up Person Dictionary Any Who Belief Specific Her Presentation Basis

Journalism is what we need to make democracy work. Walter Cronkite

Work Democracy Journalism Make Need

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. Walter Cronkite

Health Care Healthy Caring System Neither Health Care Health Care System Nor America

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. Walter Cronkite

Bible Magazine About Objective Similar Column Journalism Opinion Playboy

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. Walter Cronkite

War Mistake Remember Lost Defense Secretary Lies Admitted He Knew Along Robert Were Covered Years Shock Ended After Former Vietnam Vietnam War Twenty Lives

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. Walter Cronkite

Enough Our Selecting Leaders Perform Well Well Enough Educated Act Necessary

History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. Walter Cronkite

History Vote Writing Impossible First Important Reading Understanding Past Rank Must Citizens Share Arithmetic Most Without Issues Subjects Expected Curriculum The Most Important Which Republic

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason. Walter Cronkite

Constitution Enemy Giving Aid Charge Lead Comfort Wartime Treason

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. Walter Cronkite

News Failure Fight Desperate Gone Programmes Our Television System Entertain Ratings Attempt Democratic Because Inform Much Evening Evening News Challenged

I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues. Walter Cronkite

Vote Party Individual Never Voted Party Line Issues Line

It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. Walter Cronkite

Government Peace Conflict World Police First Judiciary Own United Nations Our Must Seems Laws Step Catastrophic Toward Executive First Step Nations Legislature After Us Enforce Avoid International Many Keep United Eventual Strengthen

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot. Walter Cronkite

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

Retirement Got Hang Quite Thing

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed. Walter Cronkite

News Age Down Changed Immediately Tenor Stepped Well Still Were Department Going After Whole Evening Evening News Things

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

People Ego Jobs More Involved Than Little Might Realize

It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. Walter Cronkite

You Year Making Dollars Little Hard Millions Elitist Millions Of Dollars

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. Walter Cronkite

Death Generation Opportunity Rare Older Gave Watershed Churchill Those Obituary Rises Something Remembered Sharing Beyond Calling Itself Times Children Which Explain Special Moments Older Generation

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might. Walter Cronkite

You Situation Think Way Flying Would One-Way Sharp Develops Like React Shells Up Quite Might Stand Stand Up

I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs. Walter Cronkite

Words Old Before Different Kinds Other Say Dinosaurs Kinds Could He Name Got Years Different Grandson Who Many

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. Walter Cronkite

Great Hunting Perils Duck

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