A biography for Walter Cronkitehasn’t been written yet.
“I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.”
“All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.”
“It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.”
“Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.”
“The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.”
“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
“Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.”
“Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.”
“I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.”
“In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.”
“We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.”
“Anchormen shouldn't cry.”
“I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.”
“I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.”
“There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.”
“I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.”
“A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.”
“I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.”
“I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.”
“I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely.”