All Walter Cronkite Quotes
- Attorney General John Ashcroft has earned himself a remarkable distinction as the Torquemada of American law. Tomás de Torquemada...was largely responsible for...[the] torture and the… Accusing
- If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —… Ago
- Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened. Happened
- To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in… Been
- 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. Always Known
- Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the Messiah arrives. He… Achieve
- The ruling class is the rich. . . . And those people are so able to manipulate our democracy that they really control the democracy. Able
- We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary… Executive
- A system of world order-preferably a system of world government -is mandatory... The proud nations someday will see the light and, for the common good… Common
- Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there Adopted
- In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. Able
- Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment. Been
- 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… Achieved
- The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know. Citizenship
- The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with… Campaigns
- I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.… Cause
- I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something. Ambition
- 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… Anchorman
- 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… Assessment
- Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible. Francisco
- Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the… Afraid
- Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.....Anybody who has to live with the people, who covers police stations,… Among
- The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start. From
- Television [is] a high-impact medium. It does some things no other force can do-transmitting electronic pictures through the air. Still, as an explored, comprehensive medium,… Air
- 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. Compressed