More - Walter Cronkite Quotes

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.

Walter Cronkite

 Doctors

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

Walter Cronkite

 American Journalist

Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium, it is not a substitute for print.

Walter Cronkite

 

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

Walter Cronkite

 American Journalist

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

Walter Cronkite

 

We are keeping company, as the old phrase used to be. I'm not making any moves immediately. I don't think it's proper. My wife has only been gone less than a year. I'll wait until that year has passed, at least.

Walter Cronkite

 Company

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

Walter Cronkite

 

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.

Walter Cronkite

 American Journalist Birthday

The Best of the CBS Evening News.

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

 American Journalist