Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. "

Walter Cronkite

Related Quotes:

" 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

" A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this. "

Walter Cronkite

" I feel no compulsion to be a pundit. As a matter of fact, I really don't have that much to say about most things. Working with hard news satisfies me completely. "

Walter Cronkite

" The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story. "

Walter Cronkite

" I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated. "

Walter Cronkite

" Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well. "

Walter Cronkite

" I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever. "

Walter Cronkite

" Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual men and women have organized to fight for acceptance and respectability. "

Walter Cronkite

" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "

Walter Cronkite

" Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was. "

Walter Cronkite

" It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space. "

Walter Cronkite

" 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. "

Walter Cronkite

" I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy. "

Walter Cronkite

" We the people have the strength to bring our country from our weak-kneed stumbling gait in the last ranks of reason to the leadership of the great march to environmental victory. "

Walter Cronkite

" The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. "

Walter Cronkite

" I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. "

Walter Cronkite

" If every small nation with a border dispute believes they can go ahead and launch a pre-emptive war and that it will be approved by the greatest power, that is a very dangerous thing. "

Walter Cronkite

" We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. "

Walter Cronkite

" We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me. "

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

" The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings. "

Walter Cronkite

" I think that our comfort is in our history. "

Walter Cronkite

" Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it. "

Walter Cronkite

" I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it. "

Walter Cronkite

" In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people. "

Walter Cronkite

" A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am. "

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

" I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens. "

Walter Cronkite