Tom Brokaw
Think of it as your ticket to change the world.Collection: Graduation
There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]Collection: Military
I remain the luckiest guy I know.Collection: Guy
I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.Collection: Inspirational
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Thinking
Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.Collection: Bob
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Country
Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.Collection: Government
I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.Collection: Thinking
We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.Collection: Opportunity
Continuous coverage of the war in the Persian Gulf will resume in a moment.Collection: War