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" Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people. "

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" 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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" John F. Kennedy, the man I had thought would define the political ideal for the rest of my days, was suddenly gone in the senseless violence of a single moment. "

" Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now. "

" I've been lucky from my earliest memory on. I happened to be born to the right parents, and the lives we led - working class, migratory - suited my personality. I had an adventurous mindset, and we lived on an Army base, then in South Dakota - it was a dynamic environment. "

" The conceit of an anchorman is we never think we're going to die, I suppose. "

" One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children. "

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

" I've seen a lot of seasons, change in my time. It's been a very lucky life. "

" 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. "

" 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

" We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color. "

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

" I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me. "

Tom Brokaw

Family

Professional

" After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost certain that all those years of nicotine inhalation were a major contributor to his clogged arteries. "

" I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories. "

" 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. "

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

" I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an electrifying effect on this country; this was a time when there were a lot of good books coming out. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

Humility

Much

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.' "

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