Brian Williams Quotes (41 Quotes)

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

We feel so good about the quality about what's going, on and off the ice. We felt it was a good way for people to give it another try.

It saves us a lot of money, it's a good business decision. We can better control things from here. I don't think you'll notice any real difference.

Even when I don't have travel plans, I pack my wife and kids in the car and we head over to Westchester County Airport, ... It's a family place.

Thank God the White House is changing the subject.

It's an accepted TV news style that can fall into a pattern. I'd like to avoid it. ... We've all done shots like that. (But) it's still the best way to tell another human being, 'This is what 80 miles an hour feels like.'

If cell phones are the new outlet for news, we're there. If it's computer screens, we're there, ... I know there are changing habits, but they'll come around to us.

Anchoring America The Changing Face of Network News.

I think her results are a direct result of her hard work and the maturity factor comes in. She has been the perfect example of what can happen when you put your mind and energy into something.

I have searched my mind for some justification for why I can't be reporting in a calm and heavily defended American city and cannot find one. I don't like being told when I can and cannot walk on the streets and take pictures.

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Bob and Elizabeth are very familiar competitors. I'm looking forward to many years of friendship while we chase each other around the globe.

Tim, this will be an interesting conversation.

Many of our viewers tell me they often miss the broadcast because they're not at home or tending to their busy lives and families. This new service reflects the fact that the pace of our lives has changed.

The NBC Nightly News.

As I said, you can set your watch by that place.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

This saves us a lot of money and is a good business decision and we can better control things from here.

My wife and children seem to like me quite a bit, and as long as that is true, I'm really OK.

The games begin at an interesting, some say dicey, time in our world.

Covering the war in Iraq, and the dangers faced by U.S. and Iraqi forces, brings with it its own unique hazards. There is no way to cover the story in Iraq without exposure to danger.

Katie is a friend of many years, and a gifted broadcaster. While I am losing her as an NBC News colleague, I am gaining an able new competitor. I want to welcome Katie to the evening shift and I look forward to competing with my friend as we all continue to cover the stories that matter, all over the world, each night, for years to come.

If I err, I err on the side of believing this is a serious business. Frankly, I think there's too much talk about 'style.'

I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the environment, disaster planning, Iraq -- all those things and more. This encompasses so many of the major issues of our time.

Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.

At a very basic level, I would like to know who my competitors will be, and I'm girding for a healthy collegial competition,

If anything, the increase in ambient noise in our society, the noise on early-evening cable, makes these three broadcasts a welcome, well-informed respite from the rest of the broadcast day,

This is an answer to all the well-meaning viewers who have stopped me in airports to say, 'I try to watch as often as I can, but I travel or I have young kids, ... When the evening has calmed down, at 10 o'clock Eastern, 7 Pacific, you can watch it on a schedule that suits you.

Chris and Kurt are a remarkably good fit with our shop.

That's a lot like saying the Empire State Building is the tallest building in New York, ... It's true but for all of the wrong reasons.

It is clear that this disaster has changed this country.

because I knew this would be the shelter of last resort in this city. I thought it would be a fascinating angle to see how this many people came together.

There is no question the Canadian men's team is under heavy pressure, but pressure is the essence of events such as the Olympics. Today, a group of young athletes handled the pressure very well.

Why can't some of the ... helicopters that we have heard flying overhead for days and days and days simply lower pallets of water, meals-ready-to-eat, medical supplies right into downtown New Orleans Where is the aid

He was always home with us until it was time for another adventure. He hauled us around everywhere. We're gonna miss him.

Everyone is always trying to write our lead for us in our business. Let me try, ... It's a great day for NBC News. It's a great day for the network evening news business. It's a place where, after all, about 30 million people come every night. And it's a place where nine months ago, for a horrible set of reasons, everyone was reminded why they come there every night.

I don't think less of anyone who has one but I wouldn't want something permanently on my body like that.

This is an enormous honor, and a huge recognition of the coverage of a news story that has become a major commitment of this news division.

There's a danger that all these images start to look alike to viewers.

Perhaps we are guilty of settling in to too comfortable a journalistic pattern, and perhaps this tragedy did serve as a reminder that this is what we do. I think too many people had forgotten that. There is a reason we show up after awful events. We really were the viewers' advocates on this.

I think it will dominate our news agenda for the foreseeable future.