Tom Brokaw Quotes

• The response to ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Generation, Greatest, Book

• What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Events, Give, Kind, Deserve, Day

• Peter is an old friend. I’m heartbroken, but he’s also a tough guy. I’m counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Getting, Guy, Difficult

• It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Buck, Tougher, Easy, Make, Lot, Difference

• I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Young, Friends, Paying, People, Think, Attention, Military

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

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journalism, About, Know

• While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades… the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in America

  Tags in Worship, Growing, Changing, Church

• If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Church

• Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Network, Young, Best, Fit, Piece, Important, Make

• Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peter, Forever, Will, Place

• What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Smart, Place

• Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seemed, Peter, Prince, Style

• 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

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Needed, Modern, Journalism, Writer, Times, Brilliant

• 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.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Needed, Really, Way, Person, Strong

• It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Generation, Produced, Greatest, Believe

• Don’t overstate Fox News. It’s still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Least, Network, Still

• What I think is highly inappropriate is what’s going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that’s quite outrageous.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Against, Going, Think, Rather

• Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Audience

• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Degree, Alternative, Ticket, May, Educated, Your, World, Good, Change, Think, Ask

• I’m not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman’s home with a drool cup.

  Tom Brokaw

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Going, Home

Tom Brokaw (22)

Birth:	6th February, 1940
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Anchor, Author, Editor, Journalist

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