Tom Brokaw Quotes

There is no delete button for bigotry.

I remain the luckiest guy I know.

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

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.

Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.

Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.

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.

I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

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

Forty years after the greatest scandal of the American presidency, Elizabeth Drew's account in Washington Journal remains fresh and riveting, instructive and evocative. Her afterword on Nixon's post-Watergate life is equally compelling.

Votes are something that you earn.

What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...

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 own that country.

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.