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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.
~ Walter Cronkite

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

I am dumbfounded that there hasn’t been a crackdown with the libel and slander laws on some of these would-be writers and reporters on the Internet.
~Walter Cronkite

It’s my belief that we should get out now.
~ Walter Cronkite

I gave the impression of playing a role more than simply trying to deliver the news to the audience.
~Walter Cronkite

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

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

I think he’s terrific. I’ve always had a great appreciation of his ability. And I would rather like to see him stay on the job there.
~ Walter Cronkite

It is difficult to think of our craft without him.
~ Walter Cronkite

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

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

My piece just kind of was another bullet in his rear end.
~ Walter Cronkite

I don’t think those things live forever with the public. They’re more likely to live with us journalists than the public itself.
~ Walter Cronkite

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

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

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

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