Walter Cronkite > Quotes

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

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

“I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journalism."

[Interview with Ron Powers (Chicago Sun Times) for Playboy, 1973]”
― Walter Cronkite

“In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.”
― Walter Cronkite

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

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

“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
― Walter Cronkite

“The rule of thumb for all news operations is that stories are assigned their importance on the basis of what affects or interests the greatest number of one's readers or viewers. Depending on the nature of the newspaper or broadcast, the balance between what "affects" and what "interests" is quite different. The first criteria of a responsible newspaper such as The New York Times is going to be that which their readers need to know about their world that day — those developments that in one way or another might affect their health, their pocketbooks, the future of themselves and their children. The first criterion of the tabloid is that which "interests" its readers — gossip, sex, scandal.”
― Walter Cronkite, A Reporter's Life

“The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)”
― Walter Cronkite

“Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.”
― Walter Cronkite

“Όποιο και αν είναι το κόστος των βιβλιοθηκών μας, η τιμή είναι φθηνή σε σύγκριση με εκείνη ένα ανίδεου έθνους.”
― Walter CronkiteBroadcaster

“I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.”
― Walter Cronkite, A Reporter's Life

“The least of us is improved by the things done by the best of us, because if we are not able to land at least we are able to follow. (July 20, 1969 CBS Moon Landing Coverage)”
― Walter Cronkite”
― Walter Cronkite

“Όποιο κι αν είναι το κόστος των βιβλιοθηκών, το αντίτιμο είναι ελάχιστο σε σύγκριση με μια χώρα χωρίς παιδεία.”
― Walter Cronkite