Dan Rather Quotes

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

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

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

Americans are once again looking outward

We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.

Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments.

My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small?

If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it.

Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must "always," make money is misguided and irresponsible.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

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

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 say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

I'm part of nobody's world except Brezhnev's.

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.

The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

It's the old shell game.

When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

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

The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it?

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going to the hands of victims of predator priests.

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called truth