Walter Cronkite Quotes

Yes, I was very much concerned. - 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

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity. - Walter Cronkite

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

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

We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be. I'm not making any moves immediately. I don't think it's proper. My wife has only been gone less than a year. I'll wait until that year has passed, at least. - Walter Cronkite

We [Dan Rather and I] just aren't especially chummy. - Walter Cronkite

To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. - Walter Cronkite

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 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....It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy and did the best they could. - Walter Cronkite

This opens the door on another chapter of history. - Walter Cronkite

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