The Greatest Generation
A source page for quotes linked to Tom Brokaw.
“I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.”
“A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.”
“Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.”
“It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.”
“Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.”
“It's not the questions that get us in trouble - it's the answers.”
“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”
“It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.”
“Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.”
“Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.”
“A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility”
“TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.”
“When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.”
“What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away...”
“I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.”
“Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.”