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

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" And that's the way it is. "

Walter Cronkite

" Advertising's always been a considerable pressure on publishers. "

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

" Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised. "

Walter Cronkite

" I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" 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

" I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms. "

Walter Cronkite

" In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation. "

Walter Cronkite

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

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. "

Walter Cronkite

" I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.' "

Walter Cronkite