Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
Walter Cronkite
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Walter Cronkite
Age: 92 †
Born: 1916
Born: November 4
Died: 2009
Died: July 17
Journalist
News Presenter
Saint Joseph
Missouri
Walter Leland Cronkite
Jr.
Walter Leland Cronkite
Jr
Caring
Neither
Healthy
Health
System
Politics
America
Care
More quotes by Walter Cronkite
The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.
Walter Cronkite
I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll go down in history as one of the greats, because of his conscience, his determination to stick with what he knew was right.
Walter Cronkite
I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor - not a commentator or analyst. I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.
Walter Cronkite
I think he [composer Joe Raposo] was the first man who kissed me on the cheek.
Walter Cronkite
Our task is not to tell the truth we are opinion molders.
Walter Cronkite
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite
I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.
Walter Cronkite
It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.
Walter Cronkite
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.
Walter Cronkite
We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.
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 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
Walter Cronkite
Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it and it has never been adopted there
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 sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.
Walter Cronkite
Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.
Walter Cronkite
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Walter Cronkite
If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.
Walter Cronkite
For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience.
Walter Cronkite
Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.
Walter Cronkite
