Wolf Blitzer Quotes (39 Quotes)

Thirty years ago, we used to do MOSes -- man-on-the-street reactions -- for big stories. This isn't all that different,

We try to use all of our resources without making it too busy or crazy out there, ... I'm sensitive to how this is going to play in Peoria, how average viewers -- say, my uncle, who may not know what Google is -- might respond.

Of course. I mean, I was dead flat wrong. ... I'm on the Intelligence Committee, and as soon as we did our report on weapons of mass destruction, I realized that I had just been living off this information, this false information. And I went down to the floor of the Senate and I said, Look, I'm wrong. I would never vote for a war knowing what I know now.

Mr. President, haven't you been watching the news Katrina hit New Orleans five days ago. The city is flooded. Many people are homeless, desperate for food and water. They're wondering why it's taking so long for the government to send help.

What does the Levy family want to hear from Gary Condit Thursday night

Everybody will watch this trial live on television.

And hovering over all of this is the threat of terror. There are people out there who hate us. They are plotting 247. These guys are patient and spend a large amount of time between attacks planning.

Government workers get a bad rap. It's important to recognize them and what they do.

Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. I didn't dig it out. It was given to me,' he said. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name, and I used.'

I believe that deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein himself is orchestrating these attacks against U.S. troops. He was never captured of killed and this is his futile attempt to regain leadership of Iraq.

It's very easy to obtain police uniforms, military uniforms, ... You go to a surplus store, and you get all you want.

McInnis said the California Democrat went too far in his relationship with Levy. He has crossed the line and we've got to have the gumption to say 'Enough is enough,' ... We have to assure this nation that this Congress is an institution of honor, and that our interns are not back here for the lovemaking purposes of U.S. congressmen.

Why are you advertising so much of the U. S. intention and giving the Iraqis that potential advantage.

It's like bringing viewers inside our control room and allowing them to move through all of that raw, incoming information with us,

Journalists are being targeted around the world. It's dangerous to be a war correspondent.

I don't understand, I really don't understand, how in the most sensitive areas of your counterespionage, et cetera, you don't have better procedures in place to be making certain that people are living up to the highest standards and that this has gone on as long as it has,

Forty-three percent of the U.S. population believes there is too much freedom in the press. Twenty-two percent of the U.S. people believe government should censor newspapers.

It is time for the United States, as the sole recognized intermediary, to consider more forceful action for peace. The rest of the world will welcome this leadership.

We go to a helicopter flying over New Orleans, where they're narrating what they see -- there are people trapped on a roof somewhere. Then we bring in Tom Forman, who used to be a reporter in New Orleans. We're looking at satellite maps of the city, comparing this with video feeds that come in, then we'll zoom in on Google Earth, see what's nearby -- a university, Lake Pontchartrain -- and all of this together delivers the story in a richer, more immediate way.

I am told that there is very little hope, but that they wanted to wait two weeks, ... Late Edition.

What we have said, and we said it in the report, we have numbers of Iraqis who tell us that Saddam was committed to acquiring weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons,

Guess what, there's another bomb out there, it is going to kill a lot more, but I'm not telling you where it is.

Everybody in the world should know that there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,

The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor ... to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.

This decision is based solely on our reaction to seeing the final film, not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script.

The committee found significant shortcomings in almost every aspect of the intelligence community's human intelligence collection efforts against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction activities. In particular, that the community had no sources collecting against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after 1998. Most, if not all of these problems stem from the broken corporate culture and poor management, and it will not be solved by additional funding and personnel.

It would be a significant step forward if the United States tried, convicted and imposed the death penalty in a U.S. court on a Palestinian terrorist who has murdered Americans in Israel.

Throughout the Middle East, democracy is making baby steps, ... Lebanon is still a problem.

Late Edition.

The issue is not whether or not they have weapons of mass destruction, the issue is whether or not the Iraqi government has made a decision that the game is up and it will comply with the United Nations resolutions,

Walter Cronkite is still Walter Cronkite, and when he tells you a story, you just are going to listen. I wanted to make sure his voice is heard, since he was there. I just think he's got a powerful story to tell.

Are you talking tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions of dollars Give us a ballpark,

You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.

On an abstract level, everyone understands that the world is full of risks and dangers. If you don't, tune in to a few minutes of CNN's jittery Situation Room, ... Safe Design Takes on Risk.

Looks like a pretty serious race unfolding.

And in the interests of full disclosure, that NARAL ad did run here on CNN. But since NARAL yanked it, it's not running on this network, obviously, anymore. We are running the Progress for America ad defending John Roberts against such attacks. We should also note that NARAL had told us and other news organizations that its ad was running on Fox News Channel and we reported that, but a Fox spokesman tells us that NARAL never approached Fox to buy any airtime.

it is unlikely that there will be any substantial progress toward a final settlement without active American leadership and participation.

We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.

In the Security Council, there is understanding that if Hans Blix ... were to be approached by the Iraqis that they need a little extra time for the civilian activities, the Security Council might give them a little bit extra time,