Walter Cronkite Quotes
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America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
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I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.
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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.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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Court proceedings, except for certain limited situations, are open to the public. This is for the protection of the accused, to be certain to ascertain that there is a fair trial.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.
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I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.
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I did not believe that the public was sophisticated enough to understand that a newsman could wear several hats and that we had the ability to turn off - nearly, you can't say perfectly, but nearly - all of our prejudices and biases.
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Here is a bulletin from CBS News: in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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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.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.