Dan Rather Quotes

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

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

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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.

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• This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

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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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• 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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• Performing doesn’t turn me on. It’s an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.

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• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

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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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• Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

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

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

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

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• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.

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• Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

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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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