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There is no delete button for bigotry.
— Tom Brokaw
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
— Tom Brokaw
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.
— Tom Brokaw
My family is not only attractive - I can say that because I'm paterfamilias - but they're really smart, and they're very, very compassionate.
— Tom Brokaw
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
— Tom Brokaw
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
— Tom Brokaw
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life.
— Tom Brokaw
Bias, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder. Facts are your firewall against bias.
— Tom Brokaw
I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.
— Tom Brokaw
People do not like to have their favorite myths of idols challenged and as a rule I think that the public does not like bad news.
— Tom Brokaw
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
— Tom Brokaw
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.
— Tom Brokaw
Denial is a strong if imperfect defense.
— Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw was never young.
— Adam McKay
People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.
— Tom Brokaw
Cancer has given me a dose of humility. I'm much more empathetic. It's a club I would rather not have joined, but it is a club.
— Tom Brokaw
Seventy-six for an American male was a number on an actuarial chart that includes men who are obese, smokers and inheritors of deadly family genes.
— Tom Brokaw
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.
— Tom Brokaw
Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you - unless you die first of something else.
— Tom Brokaw
I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.
— Tom Brokaw
In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up.
— Tom Brokaw
One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.
— Michael Gartner
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.
— Tom Brokaw
The favourite bumper sticker in Washington D.C. right now is one that says 'First Iraq, then France'
— Tom Brokaw
One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.
— Tom Brokaw
I remain the luckiest guy I know.
— Tom Brokaw
No text message will ever replace the first kiss.
— Tom Brokaw
What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away ...
— Tom Brokaw
I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.
— Tom Brokaw
I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.
— Tom Brokaw
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.
— Tom Brokaw
The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s.
— Tom Brokaw
The greatest rewards of Jerry Ford's time were reserved for his fellow Americans and the nation he loved.
— Tom Brokaw
Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
— Tom Brokaw
It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.
— Tom Brokaw
Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.
— Tom Brokaw
I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.
— Tom Brokaw
Votes are something that you earn.
— Tom Brokaw
forty years earlier. Quite
— Tom Brokaw
There on the beaches of Normandy I began to reflect on the wonders of these ordinary people whose lives were laced with the markings of greatness.
— Tom Brokaw
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
— Tom Brokaw
walked everywhere. He hated getting rides.
— Tom Brokaw
I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.
— Tom Brokaw
Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'
— Tom Brokaw
I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.
— Tom Brokaw
I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.
— Tom Brokaw
One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country.
— Tom Brokaw
In our family, where we began with no money, we like to say that we have discovered that God invented money so those who have it can help others.
— Tom Brokaw
Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy
— Tom Brokaw
I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.
— Tom Brokaw
Is that cancer curable or just treatable.
— Tom Brokaw
1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.
— Tom Brokaw
I had gone to all the big stories of the '80s, which was one of the most fertile times in American journalism, around the world and here as well.
— Tom Brokaw
What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.
— Tom Brokaw
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility
— Tom Brokaw
I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions.
— Tom Brokaw
The daunting task of being a mother, a wife, and an independent career or professional person is really taxing.
— Tom Brokaw
When I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was so struck by the universality of small towns.
— Tom Brokaw
We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
— Tom Brokaw
I played high school basketball at six feet, then I went to 5-11 in my 50's, and then, bang, I went down to 5-9.
— Tom Brokaw
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
We don't play the celebrity business in our family.
— Tom Brokaw