Tom Brokaw Quotes

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• 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…
• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
• It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
• The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
• Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
• Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
• 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.
• Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
• Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
• 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…
• It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for racism, poverty, or…
• TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
• The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy…
• When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.
• ...what I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...
• It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.
• There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost…
• One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to…
• I remain the luckiest guy I know.
• If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is the high church.

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