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" 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. "

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" Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence. "

Walter Cronkite

Preparation

Understanding

Journalism

" I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously. "

" It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. "

" Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm one of the best condensers in the business. "

Walter Cronkite

Best

Business

" The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children. "

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Say

Matter

" 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. "

" We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory. "

" Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible. "

Walter Cronkite

Just

Out

" There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering. "

" I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. "

" I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues. "

" I think there are a lot of good pieces that can be covered in 20 minutes that don't need an hour, but by the same token, there are things that need an hour or more. "

Walter Cronkite

Need

Same

" Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. "

" 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

You

Information

" 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 think that our comfort is in our history. "

" It's always hard, after you've been in command, to take a lesser role. "

" Anchormen shouldn't cry. "

Walter Cronkite

Cry

" Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact. "

" A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

Try

Politics

" We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons. "

" The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. "

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

Walter Cronkite

People

Realize

" 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 looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind. "

" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "