I sort of think in a way that many of us young reporters who had the opportunity to go overseas for our organizations were kind of, in a sense, war profiteers. We were enhancing our careers while covering that terrible conflict.
Walter CronkiteWhatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.
Walter CronkiteThe ethic of the journalist is to recognize one's prejudices, biases, and avoid getting them into print.
Walter CronkiteIt seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict 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, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order.
Walter Cronkite