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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. (Dan Rather)
We may see Michael Jackson's baby before we know the final outcome of this race for the House of Representatives tonight. View quote
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It's a legitimate point to debate. But it's part of the reality. It's happening, but it's also true they (looters) are in the distinct minority. I think there's a hero on every street corner in New Orleans, and I think the reporting has shown that. I think the balance has been there. View quote
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Start-ups like UniversityNow, a network of low-cost, online colleges, allows students to work at their own pace and pay a few hundred dollars a month for a degree. View quote
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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. View quote
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new. View quote
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By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls. View quote
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If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it. View quote
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Those of you watching and listening, get a cup of coffee or a spot of tea and join us back here in just a few moments. View quote
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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. View quote
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. (Dan Rather)
You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we try to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever. View quote
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Anyone who says network news cannot be profitable doesn't know what he is talking about. But anyone who says it must always, make money is misguided and irresponsible. View quote
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We've shared a lot in the 24 years we've been meeting here each evening, and before I say 'Good night' this night, I need to say thank you. Thank you to the thousands of wonderful professionals at CBS News, past and present, with whom it's been my honor to work over these years. And a deeply felt thanks to all of you, who have let us into your homes night after night; it has been a privilege, and one never taken lightly. View quote
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Not long after I first came to the anchor chair, I briefly signed off using the word, Courage. I want to return to it now, in a different way: to a nation still nursing a broken heart for what happened here in 2001, and especially to those who found themselves closest to the events of September 11; to our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, in dangerous places; to those who have endured the tsunami, and to all who have suffered natural disasters, and must now find the will to rebuild; to the oppressed and to those whose lot it is to struggle in financial hardship or in failing health; to my fellow journalists in places where reporting the truth means risking all; and to each of you, Courage. For The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reporting. Good night. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. View quote
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This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist, I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories, make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television. View quote
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I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice. View quote
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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. View quote
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it. (Dan Rather)
And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around people's necks if they dissented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be ‘necklaced' here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions...I do not except myself from this criticism...What we are talking about here-whether one wants to recognize it or not, or call it by its proper name or not-is a form of self-censorship. I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend. View quote
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What are the odds that Dan Rather would have accepted such patently phony documents from, say, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?" View quote
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