Dan Rather Quotes

I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

Thatcher was prepared to destroy the world rather than give in on something she believed in.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

I have refused to bend under the constant drumbeat and media attention.

I'm not going nowhere, no matter who I fight.

It doesn't matter who we play against, whether it is Barcelona or another big team: when you are Man United, you do not have an excuse. You have to win.

When I'm out there, I play with a chip on my shoulder regardless of the situation.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

I was a fighter and very determined. There was no way I was going to back out without winning.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

I concede nothing until they throw dirt on my face.

I'm going to keep living my life the way I've been living my life, and nothing is going to change that even if the Olympics are coming up.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

No ground gained was ever relinquished.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.

[He was] Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.

Fight to the bitter end.