Walter Cronkite Quotes, Thoughts and image

The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it.

Putting it as strongly as I can, the failure to give free airtime for our political campaigns endangers our democracy.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

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

This opens the door on another chapter of history.

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

Television... is not a substitute for print.

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

The ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.

The profession of journalism ought to be about telling people what they need to know - not what they want to know.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

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

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is so practical about war.

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.

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.

In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything.

I never had the ambition to be something. I had the ambition to do something.

We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

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.

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.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Leaving San Francisco is like saying goodbye to an old sweetheart. You want to linger as long as possible.

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.