Dan Rather Reporting Quotations

I have always been and remain a 'hard news' investigative reporter at heart, ... I now look forward to pouring my heart into that kind of reporting full time.

At the core, the red, beating heart of reporting is something with intelligence, something with quality, something that aspires to excellence.

The reporting for Katrina has been fabulous, among the best I have seen, right across the board, ... Television is at its best when it commits itself to public service and this was a classic, almost pluperfect, example of television news as a public service.

This was great reporting. I think the public should know that great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts. And the role of the late Katherine Graham, who owned The Washington Post, is not to be underestimated.