I do think that the success, although still not complete… in the recognition of equal rights… to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we’ve had to report. – Walter Cronkite
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. – Walter Cronkite
In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people. – Walter Cronkite
We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart. – Walter Cronkite
In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain. – Walter Cronkite
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate. – Walter Cronkite
We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory. – Walter Cronkite
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. – Walter Cronkite
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
I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. – Walter Cronkite
Anybody who’s spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence. – Walter Cronkite
Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it. – Walter Cronkite
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. – Walter Cronkite
When you’re bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. – Walter Cronkite
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. – Walter Cronkite
I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be. – Walter Cronkite
Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it. – Walter Cronkite
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. – Walter Cronkite
A lot of the questions raised about television’s power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium – most particularly print, because that’s the medium we’ve had the longest. – Walter Cronkite
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject’s impact. – Walter Cronkite
I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law. – Walter Cronkite
It’s a little hard not to be an elitist when you’re making millions of dollars a year. – Walter Cronkite