Dan Rather
Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr.is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel AXS TV. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9, 1981, to March 9, 2005. He also contributed to CBS's 60 Minutes. Rather became embroiled in controversy about a disputed news report involving President George W. Bush's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth31 October 1931
CityWharton, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.
As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
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.
Tonight, savagery in the streets of Iraq. Ten Americans die in a single day, four of them civilians murdered, mutilated and dragged through the streets....What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find.
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?
Journalism is less addictive than communism.
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
If you're in Journalism and you're looking for friends, you should get a dog.
We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.
(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.
Very big business is in bed with very big government in Washington, and has more to do with what the average person sees, hears and reads than most people know.