Tom Brokaw Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.”

“I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.”

“Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.”

“I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.”

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

“Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.”

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

“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.”

“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.”