Tom Brokaw Quotes (42 Quotes)

He was also great personal company charming, witty and mischievous. He was my hero as well as my friend.

An ideology designed to empower the masses became one of the most ruthless instruments of oppression, ... It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

There has been some research, by the way, that shows that, as people are coming up into their parenting ages, they gravitate back to the evening news.

This is so unfair and so outrageous and so maddening it's beyond my ability to express it in socially acceptable terms. So we'll just reserve our thoughts and our prayers for our friend and her family.

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.

Tom Broderick in so many ways embodies the best qualities of his generation. He was gravely wounded, but once he got over the initial understandable anger, he set out to be the best husband, father, businessman, and citizen he could be sight or not sight.

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.

Yesterday they had to operate and remove part of the skull cap to relieve some of the swelling.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try to contemplate how I wanted to live the rest of my life,

The terror warnings from the highest levels of the federal government tonight are just-

I gave him a sleeping bag. I didn't know he'd have so much opportunity to use it.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

I'm honored that you invited me, especially when for 10,000 and a new convertible you could have had the top running-back prospect at SMU.

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

We all made each other better at what we do. And we had a common DNA, if you will We were all reporters first and anchors second.

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

We had hoped that he would be here so that we could have a reunion tonight a celebration.

As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done,

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

It makes it all the more poignant because of the absence of our colleague Peter Jennings. We had hoped that he would be here tonight so we could have a reunion, a celebration.

ugly scar on the face of history.

On May 18, 1990, the 10th anniversary of the eruption, I stood on the ridge named for David Johnston. Next to me was Tom Brokaw of NBC News. Each of us had finished our respective live shots, and we stood in silence as shafts of sunlight beamed down between darkening clouds over the volcano. You're lucky, ... I have to head out of here tonight, but you get to live near this mountain. There isn't a place on Earth like it.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

People taking high doses of vitamin E actually had an overall death rate up to 6 percent higher than those not taking the vitamin,

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

Immediately after the explosion he turned to his producer and said 'Am I alive' and 'Don't tell Lee,' and then he began to cry out in excruciating pain.

He was one of my very favorite people. He was a great man. He was a great model for all of us.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.