Dan Rather Quotes

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• There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
• What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of…
• 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,…
• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie…
• Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month…
• 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…
• 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…
• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
• A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
• Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
• If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
• 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…
• And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

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