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" My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s. "

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" 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

I Can

Smart

Say

" I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit. "

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

" My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old. "

Tom Brokaw

Father

Mother

" There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins. "

" What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. "

" ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports. "

Tom Brokaw

Programming

Energy

" You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. "

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

" What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We don't play the celebrity business in our family. "

" Gerald Ford brought to the political arena no demons, no hidden agenda, no hit list or acts of vengeance. He knew who he was, and he didn't require consultants or gurus to change him. "

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

" Oklahoma residents are known for not backing down from a fight in the political arena, on the gridiron, NBA courts or rodeo arenas, but in their reaction to the bombing, they knew intuitively they would not find restoration in rage. "

" Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever. "

" Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. "

" The disquieting news of Danny Villanueva's death brought back memories of our time together at KNBC in the early 1970s. "

" You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss. "

Tom Brokaw

Universe

You

" 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. "

Tom Brokaw

Curiosity

Changes

" 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. "

" It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about. "

" I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves. "

" 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 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. "

" People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right. "

" I'm a working journalist. I'm interested in all points of view, and I draw conclusions based on facts, not just on opinions. "

" I had always been interested in race and racial justice, but mostly it was with my nose pressed up against the glass, looking at the South from a long way away. "

" 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. "