The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print. Walter Cronkite More Quotes by Walter Cronkite More Quotes From Walter Cronkite When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides. Walter Cronkite population president challenges It seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment. Walter Cronkite future god time People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings. Walter Cronkite frank sound people Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders. Walter Cronkite opinion tasks telling-the-truth 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 the past. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could. Walter Cronkite yield democracy people 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 telephones bars rooms Television... is not a substitute for print. Walter Cronkite print substitutes television The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck. Walter Cronkite archery hunting ducks A handful of us determine what will be on the evening news broadcasts, or, for that matter, in the New York Times or Washington Post or Wall Street Journal. Indeed it is a handful of us with this awesome power.And those [news stories] available to us already have been culled and re-culled by persons far outside our control. Walter Cronkite news-stories wall new-york 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. Walter Cronkite pills tiny media The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world. Walter Cronkite priorities law justice I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. Walter Cronkite political causes thinking I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail. Walter Cronkite order people years 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 the past. Walter Cronkite victory believe past 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 wrote, literally, any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil. Well join me - I’m glad to sit here at the right hand of Satan. Walter Cronkite world-government book hands We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism. Walter Cronkite atheism religious children Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time. Walter Cronkite vacation play love Never before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as it is at this very moment. Walter Cronkite moments commitment needs 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. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do. Walter Cronkite propose speak mind Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy. Walter Cronkite democracy political giving
