Dan Rather Quotations

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.