My mentor in the transition from the old Gabriel Heatter and John Cameron Swayze way of doing things was David Brinkley. He… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I'm in remission. I need to get my physical conditioning to a higher level. I was always very fit. I need to… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass,… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how 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
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
