245 Quotes by Dan Rather

(Obama's) a nice person, he's very articulate this is what's been used against him, but he couldn't sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.

There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.

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

If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

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.

Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.