Fred Rogers Quotes

Television is an important part of how we communicate.

Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

Television is not a gimmick, and if you think it is, you’ll lose again.

Strange thing, this television.

Television was essentially my college.

TV is something that I've been interested in for a while. It's a new experience, but I'm excited about it.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

There is no dignity in television.

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

TV is such a great medium in what it can do in terms of enlightening an audience. We can really inspire and teach people about other people. That's a powerful tool, and that's something that the arts has always been capable of doing.

Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.

Television is what it's always been. The best of times and the worst of times at the same time.

Sit down in front of your television set when your station goes on the air and stay there without a book, magazine, newspaper, profit-and-loss sheet or rating book to distract you—and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Radio and films, and now television, open for us a window onto everything that goes on throughout the world: the events—and the ideas too—of all humanity invade our homes day after day

If it doesn’t happen on television, it doesn’t happen.

I could do a thousand documentaries on poverty and poor people that would be watched by a handful of the convinced, but I was never really going to have an influence on my times -- (as I might if I develop Sesame Street).

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

TV is just an incredible media.

TV is the most powerful medium, which has taken me right into the homes of so many people.