245 Quotes by Dan Rather

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.

Patriotism would require standing up to what I had seen, not standing alongside it in silence.

It’s the old shell game.

Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.

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?

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

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

Gerrymandering isn’t just a recent phenomenon, though; the word was coined in 1812 when Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry went to such egregious lengths to redraw the state senate districts in his party’s favor that one district took on the shape of a salamander.

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.