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Dan Rather


American
October 31, 1931
Journalist
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?


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What separated Ed Murrow from the rest of the pack was courage.


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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.


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Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.


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I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.


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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.


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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.


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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.


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I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calendar to the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan, social media was not only sharing the news but driving it.
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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect.
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The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
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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.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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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.
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