Dan Rather Quotes

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'.
Dan Rather

Teacher, Truth, Sometimes

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather

Wisdom, After, Until

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

Learning, Life, Tough

Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Dan Rather

Courage, Afraid, Anyhow

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

Someone, Tell, Listen

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

Long, Start, Journey

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Put, Traffic, Provided

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
Dan Rather

Fear, Country, Almost

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

Political, Busy, Spring

I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
Dan Rather

Great, Political, Down

I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
Dan Rather

Rather, Wear, Rust

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

Only votes talk, everything else walks.
Dan Rather

Everything, Else, Talk

This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
Dan Rather

Times, Race, Hotter

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

Country, Big, Weather

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
Dan Rather

Computers, Human, Computer

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

Sacrifice, Dream, American

A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
Dan Rather

Freedom, Heart, Democracy

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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School, Remember, Reason

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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Order, Events, Particular

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
Dan Rather

Dance, Democrats, Mandate

As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
Dan Rather

Health, Long, Somewhere

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

Someone, Political, Nothing

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Dan Rather

History, Alone, Forget

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

Democracy, Capitalism, Despite

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Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: October 31, 1931

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