Quotes by Walter Cronkite

• Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
• We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
• There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
• There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
• Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
• In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
• And that's the way it is.
• 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.
• America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
• I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
• Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
• I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.