Quotes by Tom Brokaw

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I dont know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for Doctors Without Borders in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

When he entered the Oval Office - by fate, not by design - Citizen Ford knew that he was not perfect, just as he knew he was not perfect when he left. But what president ever was?

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.

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.

In one way or another, President Obamas critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.

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