Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.
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
Invasion
Illegal
Iraq
Politics
Start
More quotes by Walter Cronkite
News reporters are certainly liberal and left of center.
Walter Cronkite
I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.
Walter Cronkite
I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
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
Television... is not a substitute for print.
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
Be kind to an old man.
Walter Cronkite
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
I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. Probably less.
Walter Cronkite
I am not a contemplative type, basically. I am much more of an action person and, as a consequence, I look forward to today and tomorrow and what's breaking.
Walter Cronkite
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
Walter Cronkite
The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
Walter Cronkite
The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.
Walter Cronkite
Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.
Walter Cronkite
Ethics must be reintroduced to public service to restore people's faith in government. Without such faith, democracy cannot flourish. Your ambitious agenda is filling a desperate need.
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
The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy.
Walter Cronkite
We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.
Walter Cronkite
It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.
Walter Cronkite
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.
Walter Cronkite