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Walter Cronkite Quotes

Famous Quotes by Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite was the anchor of the evening TV news show called “The CBS Evening News” for many years (from 1962 until 1981) and became known as “the most trusted man in America.” Walter Cronkite’s most famous quote is this one which he used to end his broadcast for many years.

And that’s the way it is.
- Walter Cronkite

The complete sign-off was actually longer but many people do not remember that he actually said this:

“And that’s the way it is  – [the date]. This is Walter Cronkite, CBS News; good night.”

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. Probably less.
- Walter Cronkite

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

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

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
- Walter Cronkite

America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
- Walter Cronkite

More Walter Cronkite Quotes

Fourth of July quotes, Independence Day quotes
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
Daniel Webster

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, 1863

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact – the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality.
Adlai Stevenson

Michael Jackson Quotes

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
- Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson Quotes

Farrah Fawcett Quotes

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
- Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett Quotes

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
- Farrah Fawcett

When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
- Farrah Fawcett

Actress Farrah Fawcett died today at the age of 62 after a long battle with cancer.

During The Great Depression, the only fireworks that were displayed were out in the middle of your own street. You didn’t dare ride your bike past a group of rowdy kids, because they would throw cherry bombs at the pavement and the sparks would fly up and burn your legs. There were sparklers and roman candles everywhere….Author Unknown