Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years.
Born: November 4, 1916, United States
Died: July 17, 2009, United States
Google showed doodle for his 100th Birthday.
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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.
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.
I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror – to tell and show the public what has happened.
It is not the reporter’s job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.
The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know – not what they want to know.
Interviewing friends is a tough one. Your duty to the interview must transcend your friendship. Occasionally you’ll lose a friend.
And that’s the way it is.
