Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Dan Rather
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 31
Journalist
News Presenter
Opinion Journalist
Television Producer
Wharton
Texas
Daniel Irvin Dan Rather
Jr.
Daniel Irvin Dan Rather Jr.
Bigs
Market
Predicting
Country
Entire
Sample
Playing
Researchers
Opinion
Reliable
Called
Toes
Came
Accurate
Literature
Grandmother
Games
Weather
Samples
More quotes by 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 CBS news.
Dan Rather
Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
Dan Rather
I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
Dan Rather
They say California's the big burrito Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.
Dan Rather
Editing can alter the original meaning and context, and computers can alter the image itself. The camera can also be manipulated. At the very least, it must be turned in one direction - only one direction at a time ... Who chooses what direction to point the camera, and why?
Dan Rather
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
Dan Rather
The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.
Dan Rather
These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.
Dan Rather
I read the book [My Life by Bill Clinton] completely. And I think it compares very favorably with Ulysses S. Grant's gold standard of presidential autobiographies.
Dan Rather
Journalism is less addictive than communism.
Dan Rather
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
We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight.
Dan Rather
I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.
Dan Rather
When the going gets weird, anchormen punt.
Dan Rather
And now the sequence of events in no particular order.
Dan Rather
Americans are once again looking outward
Dan Rather
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
Dan Rather
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
Performing doesn't turn me on. It's an egomaniac business, filled with prima donnas - including this one.
Dan Rather
I can say with confidence I know a fair bit about LSD.
Dan Rather
