Brokaw Quotes

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

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. - Tom Brokaw

David and I have actually talked about this. - Tom Brokaw

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. - Tom Brokaw

At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. - Tom Brokaw

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. - Tom Brokaw

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. - Tom Brokaw

[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. - Tom Brokaw