Quotes by Dan Rather

About Dan Rather:

Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes. Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President George W. Bush's Vietnam-era service in the National Guard and subsequently left CBS Evening News in 2005, and he left the network altogether after 43 years in 2006.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

Dan Rather

Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

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An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

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This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

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Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.

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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

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Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

Dan Rather

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

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Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

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And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

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They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

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I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.

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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

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Author Bio

  • NameDan Rather
  • DescriptionJournalist, Anchor
  • BornOctober 31, 1931
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; News Presenter
  • AwardsPeabody Award; Emmy Award