Top 100 Dan Rather Quotes
#1. 106 [degrees] in the valley ... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.
Jay Leno
#2. If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
Newt Gingrich
#3. 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
#4. Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.
Connie Chung
#5. Republicans are now saying that Dan Rather should lose his job because he misled the country with bogus information. Which is odd because the Democrats are saying the exact same thing about President Bush.
Jay Leno
#6. In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.
Tina Brown
#7. I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.
Roger Ailes
#8. 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
#9. One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.
Michael Gartner
#10. Good morning, this is Dan Rather, with the news. Today, [person] died in an insanely nonhumorous manner
Tao Lin
#11. What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
Tom Brokaw
#12. I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.
Mika Brzezinski
#13. One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.
Jay Leno
#14. CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. When asked what it was like to talk to a crazy man, Saddam said, 'It's not so bad.'
Conan O'Brien
#15. 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
#16. Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
Bill O'Reilly
#17. CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather ... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake.
Ann Coulter
#18. I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful.
Andy Rooney
#19. Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.
Chris Rock
#21. The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.
Lance Morrow
#22. In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
Dan Rather
#23. There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.
Dan Rather
#24. If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
Laurie Nadel
#25. The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.
Laurie Nadel
#26. It's a funny thing, one day you're living and the next day you're not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don't even know if I would want a warning if it was my time. I think I'd rather be surprised.
Dan Groat
#27. A lot of tight Senate races out there. Let's hit those chips with another dash of salsa, Ed Bradley.
Dan Rather
#28. It's amazing how my mind opens up right when I have to run on the treadmill. I've finished three chapters rather than run a mile.
Dan Alatorre
#29. Frankly, I couldn't be more astonished that this guy was involved in something like this than if you came riding through my apartment on a hippopotamus.
Dan Rather
#30. We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world ... We adjust to change.
Dan Rather
#31. I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.
Dan Rather
#32. The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.
Dan Rather
#33. I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
Dan Rather
#34. That's all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of Abraham!
Dan Simmons
#35. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Dan Rather
#36. Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
Dan Rather
#37. Flip a coin. Life or death. Heads or tails. You never know.
Laurie Nadel
#38. Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets ... What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.
Dan Rather
#39. As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather
#40. Christ never intended to cover up the dark side of life, but rather to illuminate a path through it.
Dan B. Allender
#41. The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
Dan Rather
#42. Journalism is less addictive than communism.
Dan Rather
#43. thighs flesh rather than steel, her groin matted from the moisture of their passion. Her face is dark, the sun behind her, but he sees red flames dying in the multifaceted pits of her eyes. She smiles and he sees sunlight glint on rows of metal
Dan Simmons
#44. This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.
Dan Rather
#45. My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
Dan Rather
#46. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.
Dan Buettner
#47. A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather
#48. Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
Dan Rather
#49. What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, "respond" rather than simply "react." In
Dan Harris
#50. It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!
Dan Ariely
#51. A president should look for what binds the people together rather than what drives them apart. As soon as you are identified with one side of the political map, you are no longer everybody's president.
Dan Shechtman
#52. The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L
Laurie Nadel
#53. You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.
Dan Rather
#54. I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
Dan Rather
#55. I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
Dan Rather
#56. It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.
Dan Rather
#57. The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?
Dan Rather
#58. We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance.
Dan Millman
#59. The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Dan Rather
#60. Don't be indecisive and unstable in all your ways. Rather, walk in the strength, confidence, and boldness that come from decisive action.
Dan Miller
#61. Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
Dan Rather
#62. 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.
Dan Rather
#63. On Capitol Hill, the Republican-controlled House voted mostly along party lines tonight to pass President Bush's federal budget blueprint. This includes his big tax cut plan, partly bankrolled, critics say, through cuts in many federal aid programs for children and education.
Dan Rather
#64. Managing your money does not depend upon becoming wealthy or declaring vows of poverty. Rather, it is about creating stability and sufficiency - a balanced flow of monetary energy through your life.
Dan Millman
#65. When your intuition is right, thank the part of you that knows how to do that truly remarkable job.
Laurie Nadel
#66. One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'
Dan Rather
#67. If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up.
Laurie Nadel
#68. Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
Dan Rather
#69. Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
Marvin Minsky
#70. 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.
Dan Rather
#71. Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight
Laurie Nadel
#72. Writing is the rock on which everything is built.
Dan Rather
#73. I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
Dan Rather
#74. A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.
Dan Simmons
#75. Soul-to-soul contact sweeps through, like a tsunami, leaving in its wake just this: unconditional surrender and overwhelming gentleness.
Laurie Nadel
#76. Who, like Crozier, would rather have his kidney stones removed with a spoon than be forced to suffer sermons -
Dan Simmons
#77. Unraveling life lessons from just the past few years would take many more years. Lessons unlearned would pass with me, when I went through that door, to be completed in some future lifetime.
Laurie Nadel
#78. God is found in the collection of Many ... rather than in the One.
Dan Brown
#79. Make the present moment your friend rather than your enemy. Because many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment.
Dan Harris
#80. Here was a king who saw his subjects as peers and allies around whom he had growing up rather than semi-alien entities to be suspected and persecuted.
Dan Jones
#81. 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.
Dan Rather
#82. I would rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather
#83. These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
Dan Rather
#84. I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end ...
Dan Wells
#85. Inside, my spirit is sparkling like foam on the crest of a wave at high tide under a full moon.
Laurie Nadel
#86. Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam? You have to be at least irritated by that, or have you been?
Dan Rather
#87. If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather
#88. 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.
Dan Rather
#89. Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.
Dan Millman
#90. I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.
Dan Rather
#91. I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
Dan Rather
#92. If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
Dan Rather
#93. 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.
Dan Rather
#94. Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.
Dan Rather
#95. I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
Dan Rather
#96. 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.
Dan Rather
#97. I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.
Dan Rather
#98. War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.
Dan Simmons
#99. It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there.
Dan Rather
#100. Producing obituaries is a way of creating a legacy to remember important people of our times and their contributions. No matter whose obituary it is, I look for something inspirational about each person.
Laurie Nadel
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