Tom Brokaw Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”

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

“It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.”

“If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.”

“Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.”

“The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.”

“In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.”

“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.”

“I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories.”