Holiday Quote by 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, to open…

— 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 that we…

— 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 Gorbachev that…

— 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 think that's…

— 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 like if…

— 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 - some…

— 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 more accurate…

— 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 used to…

— Dan Rather