Dan rather

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

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...

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.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

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...

Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy.

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...

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...