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Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy. -- Walter Cronkite
I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors. -- Mika Brzezinski
One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather. -- Michael Gartner
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I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was. -- Roger Ailes
What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous. -- Tom Brokaw
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Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather. -- Floyd Abrams
CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent. -- Floyd Abrams
106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents. -- Jay Leno
In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism. -- Tina Brown
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'. -- Newt Gingrich
CBS is planning a tribute to Dan Rather... the memo went out a month ago but everyone assumed it was a fake. -- Ann Coulter
Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather. -- Chris Rock
The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca. -- Lance Morrow
Republicans are now saying that Dan Rather should lose his job because he misled the country with bogus information. Which is odd because the Democrats are saying the exact same thing about President Bush. -- Jay Leno
One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions. -- Jay Leno
Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law was clear on that, I think CBS and Mary Mapes and Dan Rather and all of us had a very good chance of winning. So this is an ongoing battle about an issue of principle. -- Floyd Abrams
Dan would rather play golf than have sex any day. -- Marilyn Quayle
Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'. -- Connie Chung
I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal. Now he may not like to hear me say that. I always agree with him, too. But I think he should be more careful. -- Andy Rooney

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