Dan Rather

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

— Dan Rather

“a democracy requires open access to ideas. It requires a willingness to struggle and learn, to question our own suppositions and biases,…

— Dan Rather

“[I]nclusion, not assimilation, should be the key concept in seeking, ever seeking, a more perfect national union. Our own history has shown…

— Dan Rather

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

— Dan Rather

He [Mikhail Gorbachev] has, as many great leaders have, impressive eyes....There's a kind of laser-beam stare, a forced quality, you get from…

— Dan Rather

I have tried to remain a working, cutting-edge journalist and I don't do it the way everybody else does it. And I…

— Dan Rather

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's…

— Dan Rather

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

— Dan Rather

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole…

— Dan Rather

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no…

— Dan Rather

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

— Dan Rather

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We…

— Dan Rather

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

— Dan Rather

It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.

— Dan Rather

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

— Dan Rather

From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of…

— Dan Rather

“Justice John Marshall Harlan, who famously admonished his fellow jurists and the nation as a whole: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither…

— Dan Rather

Americans are once again looking outward

— Dan Rather

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

I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who…

— Dan Rather

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

— Dan Rather

“It is important not to confuse “patriotism” with “nationalism.” As I define it, nationalism is a monologue in which you place your…

— Dan Rather

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

— Dan Rather

“The difference between love and sex is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”

— Dan Rather

What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.

— Dan Rather