Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
there on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
...what I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away... — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The doctor didn't want me to play golf anymore and was worried about me fly-fishing. Golf is something I enjoy, but fly-fishing is a… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
