245 Quotes by Dan Rather

By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient’s request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.

I don’t back down. I don’t cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

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.

If you’re in Journalism and you’re looking for friends, you should get a dog.

I’ve tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I’ve never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.

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.

We see elected officials pounding their chests, saying their vision of America represents the only real patriotism. To them I say that patriotism is not a cudgel. It is not an arms race.

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.

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