Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Dan Abrams

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Dan Abrams.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Daniel Abrams is an American media entrepreneur, television host, legal commentator, and author. He is currently the host of the prime-time show Dan Abrams Live on NewsNation, and The Dan Abrams Show: Where Politics Meets The Law on SiriusXM's P.O.T.U.S. channel. He is also the Chief Legal Analyst of ABC News.

American - Journalist | Born: May 20, 1966

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When I started Mediaite, I didn't expect it to become the business that it's become.

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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

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Demanding that all of us presume every defendant innocent outside of a courtroom is to demand that we stop evaluating facts, thereby suffocating independent thought and opinion. There is nothing 'reasonable' about that.

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I think the Internet is comparable to the Homestead Act: Here's a parcel of land. Sign up, cultivate it, it's yours.

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In 2003, I had testicular cancer, and I didn't tell anyone about it - maybe five people. I had a fairly significant surgery. I was weak, slumped over. I told people at work I'd been in an accident.

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I like the feeling that I'm on the right side of history.

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As a citizen - or even a TV legal analyst - am I required to presume innocence, i.e., that the authorities arrest the wrong person in every case? Not a chance.

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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.

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When you're behind, you have to work harder. Women have had to work harder to get ahead, and now they are in a place where they are surpassing men.

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My stint as general manager of MSNBC made me particularly sensitive to how the big stories are covered.

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I am comfortable in my own skin.

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To the chagrin of many, the media gravitates towards controversy.

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You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

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I will miss my pal Dominick Dunne. I am sure his funeral will be just the sort of event he would have loved. Based on who will be there, I am sure he wishes he could have been there to cover it.

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The idea behind Mediaite was always to focus on the punditry, focus on the personalities behind the political media.

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People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. 'What happened to the presumption of innocence?' they ask at almost every turn. Well, I'm tired of it.

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I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

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They can say I have an opinion about something.

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The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

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Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

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I have always been an amateur history buff, and I've been fascinated by legal history.

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Some people think I'm a total moron and I would hope most people think I'm very good at what I do.

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I would never have thought, when I was in my 20s, that I would be 44 and single.

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It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.

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I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

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Financial pressures, the demand of ratings, the changing tastes of the American public all led to new decisions in newsrooms about what to cover and how.

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There's no question that women are more risk averse, thoughtful, and deliberative.

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Growing up with a sister, someone I talk to all the time, helps me appreciate women.

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While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

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Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

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Trump has taken it to a new level. He is now viewing the media as the 'opposition party,' in his own words. Consequently, media coverage of Trump has become that much more significant.

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For anyone in the news business, just the name 'Cronkite' conjures up images of a bygone era when journalists covered, and could at times impact, the most important stories of the day, rather than the most 'compelling' or salacious.

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I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

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The far Right now finding a new way to attack Hillary Clinton. Questioning whether she's too old to get elected.Rush Limbaugh goes after Hillary Clinton asking if this country will 'actually want to watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis.'

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The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.

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