Walter Cronkite

I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.

Anchormen shouldn't cry.

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