Quotes from Walter Cronkite

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

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.

I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

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

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest that we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

And that's the way it is.

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

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.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

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

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

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

Walter Cronkite "Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)" ? Walter Cronkite

I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.

The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)

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.