Walter Cronkite Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Walter Cronkite:

I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Cronkite

When I stepped down from the evening news at the age of 65, in '81, things were still going well. Immediately after that, the whole tenor of the CBS News Department changed.

Walter Cronkite

We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get hold of - germs and atomic weapons.

Walter Cronkite

The military people don't like it; the government probably doesn't like it, but the people should know what they're sending their young people into when they permit their governments to declare war and engage in war.

Walter Cronkite

I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Walter Cronkite

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

Walter Cronkite

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

Walter Cronkite

I guess taking a stand is valid for a commentator. But that's not what I am.

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

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

Walter Cronkite

There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.

Walter Cronkite

I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.

Walter Cronkite

With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

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

Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

Walter Cronkite

I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.

Walter Cronkite

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

Walter Cronkite

I wouldn't give up on the U.N. yet.

Walter Cronkite

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.

Walter Cronkite

I can swear on a stack of Bibles that not once in doing the 'CBS Evening News' for 19 years - well, I take it back. Once perhaps. But during 19 years, with perhaps one exception, was I ever aware of any political or commercial pressure on that broadcast whatsoever.

Walter Cronkite

A lot of the questions raised about television's power and influence on events have applied throughout history to every mass-communications medium - most particularly print, because that's the medium we've had the longest.

Walter Cronkite

A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.

Walter Cronkite

We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.

Walter Cronkite

Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.

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

I never took any elocution lessons, no diction lessons. I might have been a pretty decent broadcaster if I had, but what you see, I'm afraid, is what you get.

Walter Cronkite

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

Walter Cronkite

I write pretty quickly. Write pretty fast. I was an old press service man. That was part of the necessity of that occupation.

Walter Cronkite