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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

Fame

Journalism

Kind

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year. "

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

" America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. "

" I think that our comfort is in our history. "

" I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing. "

" I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. "

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

Walter Cronkite

People

Realize

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

" I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate. "

" If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing. "

" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

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

" For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous. "

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

" I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get. "

" I had discovered journalism to be my life's ambition. "

" 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 don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style. "

" I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. "

" It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. "

Walter Cronkite

Understand

Hard

" 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

" In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people. "

" We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "