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. – Tom Brokaw
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don’t know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great courage as they walked into a town in the dark of night. A doctor working for ‘Doctors Without Borders’ in Somalia, operating by kerosene light in a tent. Those are the kinds of people that linger in your memory. – 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 year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other. – Tom Brokaw
There are lots of dimensions to being a cancer patient. The overwhelming one is that it takes over your life. – Tom Brokaw
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
Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style. – Tom Brokaw
We were empty nesters, our last-born child having departed for Duke. Meredith decided we needed a dog to fill the vacuum. She heard about a litter in Colorado sired by Chopper, the legendary avalanche dog at the top of Aspen Mountain. – Tom Brokaw
I was on the board of the Mayo Clinic. I was diagnosed there, and I could pick up the phone and get a hold of whoever I wanted to. What I learned is that you really have to get proactive and manage your case. – Tom Brokaw
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything – meals, jobs, clothing. – 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
