219 Quotes by Tom Brokaw

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.

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

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.

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.

It doesn’t do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

TV is a fickle business. I’m only good for the length of my contract.

Healthcare workers are not being shot at, obviously, but they are exposed to dangerous diseases; they lead unconventional, all-hours lives; they are mission-oriented and they work in a hierarchical environment, with the physicians on top and orderlies doing the grunt work at the bottom.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed, to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.” – From John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech, January 1961 Given.

The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow ” For better or for worse – it was the last generation in which, broadly speaking, marriage was a commitment and divorce was not an option.