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.

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• Walter Cronkite:

  And that's the way it is.

• Walter Cronkite:

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

• Walter Cronkite:

  Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

• Walter Cronkite:

  I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

• Walter Cronkite:

  The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been

• Walter Cronkite:

  I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of compet

• Walter Cronkite:

  I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

• Walter Cronkite:

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

• Walter Cronkite:

  There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

• Walter Cronkite:

  When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population