Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so...
DAN RATHER There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has chang...
DAN RATHER Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated socie...
DAN RATHER I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan politic...
DAN RATHER Always marry a woman from Texas. No matter how tough things get, she's seen tougher.
DAN RATHER This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. W...
DAN RATHER They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but ...
DAN RATHER And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
DAN RATHER Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
DAN RATHER Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
DAN RATHER This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
DAN RATHER But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we...
DAN RATHER I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
DAN RATHER From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calend...
DAN RATHER Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a littl...
DAN RATHER Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.
DAN RATHER A tough lesson to learn in life is that not everyone wishes you well.
DAN RATHER The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives...
DAN RATHER It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but you know there was a time in So...
DAN RATHER If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...
DAN RATHER If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at...
DAN RATHER The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next p...
DAN RATHER Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas -- including thi...
DAN RATHER If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at...
DAN RATHER An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lon...
DAN RATHER Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
DAN RATHER Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
DAN RATHER If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
DAN RATHER A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice beca...
DAN RATHER Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
DAN RATHER The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be r...
DAN RATHER The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next p...
DAN RATHER A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart ...
DAN RATHER Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conser...
DAN RATHER If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.
DAN RATHER A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
DAN RATHER The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.
DAN RATHER Only votes talk, everything else walks.
DAN RATHER Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of balance.
DAN RATHER Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - includ...
DAN RATHER I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideol...
DAN RATHER If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighb...
DAN RATHER One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
DAN RATHER I gave it everything I had, I didn't hold anything back. I did the best newscast we were capable of ...
DAN RATHER Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at the...
DAN RATHER For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, ...
DAN RATHER No -- no, sir, I don't.
DAN RATHER Folks, let me point out something to you, because for a lot of people in Washington, they could not ...
DAN RATHER Only votes talk, everything else walks.
DAN RATHER Make no mistake, inside that tall, handsome, elegant and eloquent exterior, inside that, beat the he...
DAN RATHER What I hope will not change is the understanding that news needs to serve the public interest as its...
DAN RATHER No doubt the CBS Evening News will be different.
DAN RATHER [Beneath the outside eloquence] beat the heart of a fierce competitor, ... Good Morning America.
DAN RATHER It's that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions,
DAN RATHER This is a catastrophe, ... 60 Minutes II.
DAN RATHER Television sometimes has difficulty with depth and breadth, context and perspective, but what it doe...
DAN RATHER First of all, from where I sit, I am leaving on a high note, ... and a higher note than I deserve an...
DAN RATHER Nobody's pushing me out.
DAN RATHER Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democra...
DAN RATHER I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
DAN RATHER Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.
DAN RATHER Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so...
DAN RATHER It's an obscene comparison,
DAN RATHER I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crack cocaine, more addictive ...
DAN RATHER The Michigan Republican primary apparently is tighter than Willie Nelson's headband.
DAN RATHER They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through...
DAN RATHER Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.
DAN RATHER They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but ...
DAN RATHER The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next p...
DAN RATHER Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
DAN RATHER I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The...
DAN RATHER By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill pat...
DAN RATHER I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never ...
DAN RATHER To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.
DAN RATHER I'm all news, all the time. Full power, tall tower. I want to break in when news breaks out. That's ...
DAN RATHER What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.
DAN RATHER Satire is particularly valuable in a country like ours.
DAN RATHER Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
DAN RATHER Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
DAN RATHER Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
DAN RATHER When the time comes, & I hope it comes soon, to bury this era of moral rot & the defiling of...
DAN RATHER I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog...
DAN RATHER Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art
DAN RATHER I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And ...
DAN RATHER As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about...
DAN RATHER I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has g...
DAN RATHER The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r...
DAN RATHER And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in eleme...
DAN RATHER I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CB...
DAN RATHER I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.
DAN RATHER I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.
DAN RATHER What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
DAN RATHER As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
DAN RATHER I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.
DAN RATHER Nobody really cares about the storage number unless it shows some sort of surprise to the upside.
ALLEN RATHER The lower you go in the price structure, the more factors come into play.
ALLEN RATHER A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
DAN QUAYLE My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put you...
DAN GABLE I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You ...
DAN MARINO I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
DAN QUAYLE We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We ar...
DAN QUAYLE We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
DAN GABLE When we make progress and get better at something, it is inherently motivating. In order for people ...
DAN PINK I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I&...
DAN WHELDON My childhood dream was to study mechanical engineering. After reading 'The Mysterious Island'...
DAN SHECHTMAN One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be ...
DAN QUAYLE Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
DAN KAMINSKY I can only tell you that eggs, country ham, biscuits, a pot of coffee, a morning paper, a table by t...
DAN JENKINS The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing m...
DAN JENKINS Vijay Singh won a playoff in 2004 at Whistling Straits after a final-round 76, which was the highest...
DAN JENKINS Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
DAN PHILLIPS The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star,...
DAN JENKINS I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
DAN GILBERT I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a...
DAN HILL When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ...
DAN HILL I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do...
DAN HILL When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen...
DAN HILL Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ...
DAN HILL The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w...
DAN HILL My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
DAN HILL One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ...
DAN HILL I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy...
DAN HILL When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra...
DAN HILL With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi...
DAN HILL I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab...
DAN HILL In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we...
DAN HILL Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan...
DAN HILL When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s...
DAN HILL Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i...
DAN HILL Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.
DAN HILL Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou...
DAN HILL If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit...
DAN HILL At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i...
DAN HILL To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by...
DAN HILL I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
DAN HILL I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
DAN HICKS I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
DAN HICKS I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: t...
DAN HICKS There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.
DAN HICKS About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises t...
DAN HICKS There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to ...
DAN HICKS I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labe...
DAN HICKS I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'...
DAN HICKS My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, an...
DAN HICKS Right now, I'm thinking in terms of just having a good band, man. Having a good act for the stag...
DAN HICKS There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the wor...
DAN HICKS And it really is a good feeling to get up there and make that sound. I'm not stuck in a time war...
DAN HICKS It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we ...
DAN HAWKINS We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we'v...
DAN HAWKINS We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.
DAN HAWKINS We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We&...
DAN HAWKINS We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone ...
DAN HAWKINS There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs la...
DAN HAWKINS The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set ...
DAN HAWKINS My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played ...
DAN HAWKINS In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at ...
DAN HAWKINS I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
DAN HAWKINS I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the expos...
DAN HAWKINS As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypass...
DAN HAWKINS After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.
DAN HAWKINS When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!
DAN HAWKINS You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really ...
DAN HAWKINS I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
DAN HAWKINS Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
DAN HAWKINS I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd don...
DAN HAWKINS The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And vie...
DAN HARMON Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels ...
DAN HARMON My passion for 'Star Trek' is actually rooted in my love of television and the art of franch...
DAN HARMON I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of...
DAN HARMON TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.
DAN HARMON The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people...
DAN HARMON Class clowns are never allowed to date anybody decent, but you don't get beaten up, you're i...
DAN HARMON When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It wa...
DAN HARMON I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our lo...
DAN HARMON If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist ...
DAN HARMON People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi ...
DAN HARMON I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories w...
DAN HARMON Maybe I am just a jerk.
DAN HARMON Television is a populous, derivative, democratic medium.
DAN HARMON I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I'v...
DAN HARMON Eight o'clock is hard no matter what network you're on because people have to make a decisio...
DAN HARMON Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing ...
DAN HARMON There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
DAN HARMON I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
DAN HARMON I care very much what the fans think. I'm starting to loosen my grip on caring about what critic...
DAN HARMON I really like performing for people.
DAN HARMON The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to...
DAN GLICKMAN I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with ...
DAN GLICKMAN The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and ...
DAN GLICKMAN Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
DAN GLICKMAN Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our i...
DAN GLICKMAN The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting so...
DAN GLICKMAN There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultiv...
DAN GLICKMAN Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.
DAN GLICKMAN If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect int...
DAN GLICKMAN I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do i...
DAN GLICKMAN