22 Quotations by Dan Rather
- 1. A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

- 2. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

- 3. An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon ...

- 4. And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

- 5. By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill pat ...

- 6. Folks, let me point out something to you, because for a lot of people in Washington, they could not ...

- 7. I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The ...

- 8. I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's ...

- 9. I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never ...

- 10. If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...

- 11. Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including thi ...

- 12. Texas: 32 electoral votes, another of the so-called big enchiladas or if not an enchilada at least a ...

- 13. The American Dream [is] one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thriv ...
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- 14. The compassionate conservative's stand on homosexuals seems to be this: I'm OK, you're OK--so long a ...

- 15. The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next p ...

- 16. The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.

- 17. They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but ...

- 18. They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through ...

- 19. This race between Dick Swett and Bob Smith is hot and tight as a too-small bathing suit on a too-lon ...

- 20. This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.

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