Walter Cronkite quote: "I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely."

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competi...
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I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, ...
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minu...
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
WALTER CRONKITE

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
WALTER CRONKITE

I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You...
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
WALTER CRONKITE

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better...
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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The ho...
WALTER CRONKITE

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people s...
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And that's the way it is.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he...
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
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I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaste...
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever...
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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
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It is a seldom proferred argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function ...
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Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name...
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
WALTER CRONKITE

I asked my doctors if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very ha...
WALTER CRONKITE

I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of e...
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the sh...
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In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
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With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seeming...
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must str...
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I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it ...
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the pr...
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in...
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the ...
WALTER CRONKITE

There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn&...
WALTER CRONKITE

On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bia...
WALTER CRONKITE

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American...
WALTER CRONKITE

I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or an...
WALTER CRONKITE

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
WALTER CRONKITE

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

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any ...
WALTER CRONKITE

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the d...
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing n...
WALTER CRONKITE

Our job is only to hold up the mirror -- to tell and show the public what has happened.
WALTER CRONKITE

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

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architectur...
WALTER CRONKITE

Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. W...
WALTER CRONKITE

I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper caree...
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We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ...
WALTER CRONKITE

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

I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to S...
WALTER CRONKITE

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, report...
WALTER CRONKITE

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electro...
WALTER CRONKITE

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population n...
WALTER CRONKITE

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

This opens the door on another chapter of history.
WALTER CRONKITE

Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he think...
WALTER CRONKITE

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
WALTER CRONKITE

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and si...
WALTER CRONKITE

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.
WALTER CRONKITE

I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a...
WALTER CRONKITE

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and ...
WALTER CRONKITE

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's atte...
WALTER CRONKITE

We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce ...
WALTER CRONKITE

And that's the way it is.
WALTER CRONKITE

I am dumbfounded that there hasn't been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these...
WALTER CRONKITE

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

The earliest admonition we had about the computer was to quit using the phrase electric brain. The f...
WALTER CRONKITE

The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck
WALTER CRONKITE

We [Dan Rather and I] just aren't especially chummy.
WALTER CRONKITE

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

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

Give us the ranger, give us the ranger!
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Kay was an extraordinary person. As a bereaved widow, [she] surprised everyone with her strength to ...
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Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.
WALTER CRONKITE

To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.
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The Best of the CBS Evening News.
WALTER CRONKITE

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time wi...
WALTER CRONKITE

We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be. I'm not making any moves immediately. I don't ...
WALTER CRONKITE

They're going to have to eat their words. Some of the things I've seen her do on Today when there's ...
WALTER CRONKITE

There's a difference between that and showboating. There's definitely [some] showboating. Usually it...
WALTER CRONKITE

I remember her when she was an NBC reporter -- correspondent in Japan -- and I thought she did great...
WALTER CRONKITE

I don't think those things live forever with the public. They're more likely to live with us journal...
WALTER CRONKITE

Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way,...
WALTER CRONKITE

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minu...
WALTER CRONKITE

The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been t...
WALTER CRONKITE

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
WALTER CRONKITE

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

The publisher has to be the moral force of the newspaper. She carried herself as a queen ... and she...
WALTER CRONKITE

Yes, I was very much concerned,
WALTER CRONKITE

I'd like to be a song and dance man.
WALTER CRONKITE

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there
WALTER CRONKITE

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists...
WALTER CRONKITE

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

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

Be kind to an old man.
WALTER CRONKITE

My piece just kind of was another bullet in his rear end.
WALTER CRONKITE

It is difficult to think of our craft without him.
WALTER CRONKITE

I think he's terrific. I've always had a great appreciation of his ability. And I would rather like ...
WALTER CRONKITE

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very ...
WALTER CRONKITE

The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes...
WALTER CRONKITE

If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war ...
WALTER CRONKITE

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.
WALTER CRONKITE

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with...
WALTER CRONKITE

Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
WALTER CRONKITE

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
WALTER CRONKITE

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways:...
WALTER CRONKITE

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a spe...
WALTER CRONKITE

I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Taber...
WALTER CRONKITE

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time wi...
WALTER CRONKITE

Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations betwee...
WALTER CRONKITE

I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a n...
WALTER CRONKITE

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of ...
WALTER CRONKITE

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN

I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center&#...
WALTER O'BRIEN

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN

I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poure...
WALTER BECKER

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that ...
WALTER BECKER

We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet hav...
WALTER BECKER

All our wives are experimental psychologists.
WALTER BECKER

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I...
WALTER BECKER

I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the gr...
WALTER BECKER

From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show ...
WALTER BECKER

That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the mid...
WALTER BECKER

You have a kid, and it's like, 'He's gotta go to college! Gotta have some clothes!'
WALTER BECKER

'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
WALTER BECKER

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its co...
WALTER BECKER

There was a film called 'FM,' and we were asked to do the title song. And I said, 'Does ...
WALTER BECKER

'Deacon Blues' was special for me. It's the only time I remember mixing a record all day...
WALTER BECKER

The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER

There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
WALTER BECKER

I spent a couple of years not doing any music or anything, just here in Hawaii trying to get healthy...
WALTER BECKER

I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
WALTER BECKER

It's great fun to play with a really good band.
WALTER BECKER

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you e...
WALTER BECKER

Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
WALTER BECKER

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ...
WALTER BECKER

When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's...
WALTER BECKER

My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th...
WALTER BECKER

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end...
WALTER BECKER

I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
WALTER BAGEHOT

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d...
WALTER BAGEHOT

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ...
WALTER BAGEHOT

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi...
WALTER BAGEHOT

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
WALTER BAGEHOT

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink...
WALTER BAGEHOT

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn...
WALTER BAGEHOT

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only...
WALTER BAGEHOT

Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause...
WALTER ANNENBERG

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu...
WALTER ANNENBERG

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
WALTER ANNENBERG

You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
WALTER ANNENBERG

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Accomplish something every day of your life.
WALTER ANNENBERG

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
WALTER ANNENBERG

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
WALTER ANNENBERG

My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.
WALTER ANNENBERG

Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually en...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable late...
WALTER ANNENBERG

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.
WALTER ANNENBERG

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
WALTER ANNENBERG

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f...
WALTER ANDERSON

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.
WALTER ANDERSON

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, ne...
WALTER ANDERSON

I'm not afraid to learn from my coaches.
WALTER ALSTON

I put myself through college playing pool.
WALTER ALSTON

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.
WALTER ALSTON

The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all condi...
WALTER ALSTON

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.
WALTER ALSTON

I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or ho...
WALTER ALSTON

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; ...
ULRICH WALTER

Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I...
ULRICH WALTER

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
WALTER WRISTON

She's been on more laps than a napkin.
WALTER WINCHELL

Nothing recedes like success.
WALTER WINCHELL

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
WALTER WINCHELL

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
WALTER WINCHELL

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
WALTER WINCHELL

The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL

Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline.
WALTER WINCHELL

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
WALTER WINCHELL

What I would like to be remembered for is that Walter Washington changed the spirit of the people of...
WALTER WASHINGTON

Mine has been a concern for the people, a concern to maintain stability, a concern to get people wor...
WALTER WASHINGTON

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
WALTER WAGER

I always liked spy stories.
WALTER WAGER

I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
WALTER WAGER

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
WALTER WAGER

I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

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I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.

Walter Cronkite

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