Latest Walter Cronkite Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a romanticist in many ways. I never get behind the wheel of my boat and dropping the anchor without saying to myself, secretly giving my orders to the crew "All right, lift the anchor, we're on our way to South Hampton. We're gonna beat them there with this load of tea!"

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchors, Order, Giving

  Source: www.midtod.com

• The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

  Walter Cronkite

  Prejudice, Ethics, Print

  Source: www.midtod.com

• I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.

  Walter Cronkite

  Determination, Thinking, Office

  Source: www.midtod.com

• I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.

  Walter Cronkite

  War, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.midtod.com

• I guess I showed certain signs of being a workaholic in early years; I had a magazine route very early on - I must have been about seven or eight years old or something like that - when I was carrying Liberty magazine, trying to win green and brown coupons; I eventually [won] a pony.

  Walter Cronkite

  Winning, Years, Eight

  Source: www.midtod.com

• I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

  Walter Cronkite

  Country, School, Class

  Source: www.midtod.com

• I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.

  Walter Cronkite

  Looks, Today, Action

  Source: articles.latimes.com

• I have never pretended to be a great writer. I am totally immodest about being a great reporter and a good news writer. I write fast and I write accurately, nearly as accurately as anybody can be, and that's my skill.

  Walter Cronkite

  Writing, Skills, News

  Source: articles.latimes.com