Dan Abrams Quotes

#1. You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity.

Graeme Samuel

#2. The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

Anthony Stevens

#3. She was green when green wasn't in. From sea to shining sea, Lady Bird Johnson has left her legacy in a more beautiful America. From millions of trees and wildflowers planted, to interstates free from billboards and replaced with green.

David Mixner

#4. I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

David Haye

#5. I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

Dan Abrams

#6. My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

Vern Buchanan

#7. Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

Dan Abrams

#8. Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

Floyd Abrams

#9. Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

Dan Abrams

#10. When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

Paul Krugman

#11. The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

Dan Abrams

#12. I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

Dan Abrams

#13. But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

Dan Abrams

#14. Changing a habit is hard work. But it's harder to find work that would be more fulfilling

Voltaire

#15. I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

Dan Abrams

#16. We are all immersed in the atmosphere of our own thinking. This decides what shall take place in our lives.

Ernest Holmes

#17. You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

Dan Abrams

#18. Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle.

Floyd Abrams

#19. I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

Dan Abrams

#20. Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Dan Abrams

#21. Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#22. A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

John Zachary Young

#23. I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

Dan Abrams

#24. I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.

Martial

#25. I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

Paulo Coelho

#26. They can say I have an opinion about something.

Dan Abrams

#27. CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

Floyd Abrams