Walter Cronkite

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#ignorance #intelligence #libraries #education

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

— Walter Cronkite

#care #caring #health #health care #health care system

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

— Walter Cronkite

#hold #job #mirror #only #our

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

— Walter Cronkite

#both sides #get #seeking #sides #story

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#educated #enough #intelligently #leaders #necessary

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#bible #column #journalism #magazine #objective

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

— Walter Cronkite

#either #free #little #such #thing

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

#candidate #challenging #coverage #fairly #information

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#dan rather #especially #i #just #rather

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

#compressed #day #enough #every #every day