“I think very definitely that foreign policy could have caused what has happened [last September 11th]....It certainly should be apparent now – it should be, for goodness sakes understood now, but it is not – that the problem is this great division between the rich and the poor in the world. We represent the rich....Most of these other nations of Africa, Asia and South America and Central America are very, very poor....This is a revolution in effect around the world. A revolution is in place today. We are suffering from a revolution of the poor and have-nots against the rich and haves and that’s us.”

Walter Cronkite on CNN’s Larry King Live - September 9, 2002


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“It seems to me that instead of cutting taxes, we ought to be increasing the taxes to pay off the deficit, rather than let that thing build up to the point where our grandchildren’s grandchildren are going to be paying for our period of time and our years at the helm.”

CNN’s NewsNight with Aaron Brown - June 18, 2003

"I believe that most of us reporters are liberal, but not because we consciously have chosen that particular color in the political spectrum."

"More likely it is because most of us served our journalistic apprenticeships as reporters covering the seamier side of our cities -- the crimes, the tenement fires, the homeless and the hungry, the underclothed and undereducated. We reached our intellectual adulthood with daily close-ups of the inequality in a nation that was founded on the commitment to equality for all. So we tend to side with the powerless rather than the powerful."

"If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism -- that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased."

"Incidentally, I looked up the definition of "liberal" in a Random House dictionary. It gave the synonyms for "liberal" as "progressive," "broad-minded," "unprejudiced," "beneficent." The antonyms it offered: "reactionary" and "intolerant." "

August 15, 2003 Walter Cronkite | Liberalism in media

"If the Democratic Party is to have hope of recapturing the White House, it will be helpful if its candidates for the presidential nomination agree on some basic objectives that will clearly define the principal policies and goals of their party. Those basic goals still would leave plenty of room for the candidates to debate how best to achieve them and to display what they have in charisma and leadership."

"That deficit financing is bad business, and taxes be fairly imposed, with the heavier burden placed on those most able to pay."

"That our environment shall be fully protected, and that the fortunes of no industry or special interest shall interfere with that mission."

August 22, 2003 Walter Cronkite | Ten-point proposal for Democrats

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