25 Quotes by David Brinkley

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.