219 Quotes by Tom Brokaw

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

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,

I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.

People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.

Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.