Tom Brokaw Thinking Quotations

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.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

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.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

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.