Author: Dan Rather

Quotes

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

- Dan Rather

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

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

- Dan Rather

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

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

- 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 has guts.

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

- Dan Rather

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

- Dan Rather

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

- Dan Rather

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

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

- Dan Rather

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

- Dan Rather

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

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

- Dan Rather

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