Dan Rather Quotes
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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 Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
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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.
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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.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas – including this one.
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The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
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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 for a degree.
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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.
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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 frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.
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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'.
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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.
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Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
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And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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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 bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.