Walter Cronkite Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Walter Cronkite:

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#0725b352

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#140820f3

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#a7dbbfd1

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.
~Walter Cronkite


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#4d74d4ba

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#bfefb8f0

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
~Walter Cronkite


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#22a672c3

And that's the way it is.
~Walter Cronkite


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#9020a887

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#6d78f8df

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#7aa4cff3

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.
~Walter Cronkite


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#f8e1e028

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#0297897b

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
~Walter Cronkite


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#1d151b7e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#3e621ece

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
~Walter Cronkite


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#ca58cac4

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
~Walter Cronkite


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#0ba3eec9

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.
~Walter Cronkite


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#9b6ddbeb

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#fc6f899f

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/walter-cronkite-quotes/#ab2ac998

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