Dan Rather Quotes

• Journalism is not a precise science, it’s a crude art.

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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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• A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

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• Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.

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• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

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

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• Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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• 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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• Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

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• I don’t back down. I don’t cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

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

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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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• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

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• I’ve always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

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• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

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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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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

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• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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• The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth”.

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Dan Rather (26)

Birth:	31st October, 1931
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Journalist

About

Dan Rather 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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