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• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

  Dan Rather

  Vote, Walks, Walking

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• The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when its core components of freedom and opportunity are open to more Americans than ever before. It holds a real, identifiable place in the American heart and mind, and it informs the aspirations of everyone from farmers to software developers, from detectives to bankers, from soldiers to social workers . . . It defines us as a people, even as we add to its meaning with each new chapter in our national experience and our individual actions.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Real, Heart

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• Journalism is less addictive than communism.

  Dan Rather

  Journalism, Communism

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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.

  Dan Rather

  Thinking, Editors, Important

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.

  Dan Rather

  Anchorman

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• 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.

  Dan Rather

  Hands, Goal, Catholic

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• Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

  Dan Rather

  Writing, Rocks, Built

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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.

  Dan Rather

  Sports, Baseball, Games

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.

  Dan Rather

  Book, Thinking, Presidential

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• 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 or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

  Dan Rather

  Country, Grandmother, Playing Games

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

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• There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

  Dan Rather

  Tough Questions, People, Criticism

  "Veteran CBS News Anchor Dan Rather Speaks Out on BBC Newsnight Tonight". www.bbc.co.uk. May 16, 2002.

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• Foreign news is considered an expletive. Thoughtfully written analysis is out, 'live pops' are in. 'Action Jackson' is the cry. Hire lookers, not writers. Do powder puff, not probing interviews. Stay away from controversial subjects. Kiss ass, move with the mass, and for heaven and rating's sake, don't make anybody mad- - certainly not anybody you're covering, and especially not the mayor, the governor, the senator, the president or the vice-president or anybody in a position of power. Make nice, not news.

  Dan Rather

  Nice, Moving, Kissing

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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.

  Dan Rather

  Pockets, May, Frogs

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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.

  Dan Rather

  Art, Mistake, Blow

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2005.

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• 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 does not come across as something peaceful within himself. It's the look of a kind of human volcano, or he'd probably like to describe it as a human nuclear energy plant.

  Dan Rather

  Eye, Volcanoes, Leader

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• Have you ever had any anger about President Bush - who spent his time during the Vietnam War in the National Guard - running, in effect, a campaign that does its best to diminish your service in Vietnam? You have to be at least irritated by that, or have you been?

  Dan Rather

  Running, War, President

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• [My job is] a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

  Dan Rather

  Jobs, Trapeze, Trapeze Artists

  "Sign-Off: The long and complicated career of Dan Rather" by Ken Auletta, www.newyorker.com. March 07, 2005.

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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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  Political, Caves, Literature

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• 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.

  Dan Rather

  Feel Good, Forever, Soul

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• 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.

  Dan Rather

  Talking, News, Making Money

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• 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.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Blessed, Lucky

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• Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

  Dan Rather

  Dance, Politics, Democrat

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• For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

  Dan Rather

  Mean Girls, Hurt, Boys

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

  Dan Rather

  War, Years, America

  "A History Lesson" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 9, 2011.

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

  Dan Rather

  Digital, Savants, Apprentice

  "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

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