Dan Rather Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Never eat spinach just before going on the air.”

“Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?”

“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.”

“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.”

“And now the sequence of events in no particular order.”

“Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.”

“Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.”

“The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.”

“As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.”