More - Dan Rather Quotes

I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.

Dan Rather

 American Journalist

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

Dan Rather

 

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

Dan Rather

 American Journalist Difficulty

I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive than heroin, more addictive than cigarettes.

Dan Rather

 American Journalist

If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it.

Dan Rather

 

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

Dan Rather

 

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

Dan Rather

 American Journalist Intellectuals

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.

Dan Rather

 

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.

Dan Rather

 American Journalist

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.

Dan Rather

 American Journalist