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
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that. Walter Cronkite
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. 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
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. 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