Dan Rather Quotes - Page 2

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• It's the ratings, stupid, don't you know? They've got us putting more fuzz and wuzz on the air, cop-show stuff.

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  Stupid, Air, Stuff

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• Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

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  Party, Light, Turns

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• They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

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  Florida, Texas, California

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• I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.

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  Lsd, Knows, Fairs

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

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  Funny, Memorial Day, Block

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• I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

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  Funny, Drug, Understanding

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• I know that this story is true.

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  Stories, Knows

  "Chronology of '60 Minutes' Controversy" by Randy Hall, www.crosswalk.com. January 10, 2005.

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• I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's my agenda. Now, respectfully, when you start talking about a liberal agenda and all the, quote, 'liberal bias' in the media, I quite frankly, and I say this respectfully but candidly to you, I don't know what you're talking about.

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  Media, Talking, Towers

  "Internet gives conservatives a stronger voice" by Brent Bozell, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a huge taco.

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  Texas, Enchiladas, Tacos

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• Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?

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  One Direction, Editing, Cameras

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• We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.

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  Country, America, People

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• 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.

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  Government, Average, People

  "Dan Rather: Corporate Media ‘Is In Bed With’ Washington", www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2012.

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• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

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  Running, Real, Fighting

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• If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

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  Gun, Hands, Pockets

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

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  Boys, Guy, Catholic

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• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

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  Long, Want

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• 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.

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  Records, Believer, Hard

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

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  Way, Vote, Ifs

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• Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.

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  Texas, Matter, Tough

  Twitter post from Jun 26, 2014

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• Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

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  Doe, Lasts, Journalism

  Twitter post from Jul 25, 2014

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• It's the old shell game.

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  Games, Religion, Shells

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• 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 the difference.

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  Cutting, Thinking, Differences

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• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

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  Air, Spinach

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

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  Proud

  Dan Rather (1995). “The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist”, Hearst Books

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

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  Cousin, Enemy, Bees

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