Quotes from Walter Cronkite

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

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

I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.

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.

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.

Be kind to an old man.

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

I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

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.

Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

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

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

Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.

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)

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 hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.