245 Quotes by Dan Rather

With stories of disasters, it's hard to break through the glass and bring it home, but I think this is getting through the glass. I think this has been one of television's finest hours.

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.

The public has lost interest. They'd much rather hear about the Robert Blake murder case or what is happening on Wall Street. A feeling is creeping back in that if you lead foreign, you die.

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.

This was great reporting. I think the public should know that great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. And the role of the late Katherine Graham, who owned The Washington Post, is not to be underestimated.

Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.

At the core, the red, beating heart of reporting is something with intelligence, something with quality, something that aspires to excellence.

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

a necessary process to deal with a difficult issue, at the end of which four good people have lost their jobs.