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
They were willing to speak truth to power.
This race between Dick Swett and Bob Smith is hot and tight as a too-small bathing suit on a too-long car ride back from the beach.
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
We are the "can do" country. We adjust to situations better than any people in the history of the world... We adjust to change.
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you to make sure that doesn't happen.
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.
My cousin just died. He was only 19. He got stung by a bee - the natural enemy of a tightrope walker.
It's the old shell game.
These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
It's the American way: if you don't vote, you don't get to whine.
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.
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.