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Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

- Walter Cronkite

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

- Walter Cronkite

With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.

- Walter Cronkite

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

We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

- Walter Cronkite

Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.

- Walter Cronkite

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

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

- Walter Cronkite

I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

- Walter Cronkite

I think people make way too much of ratings.

- Walter Cronkite

I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.

- Walter Cronkite

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while longtime servants, for whom they quite clearly had some affection, were well within earshot.

- Walter Cronkite

I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.

- Walter Cronkite

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.

- Walter Cronkite

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

- Walter Cronkite

I do not consider a liberal necessarily to be a leftist.

- 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

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.

- Walter Cronkite

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

- Walter Cronkite

Anchormen shouldn't cry.

- Walter Cronkite