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.”

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

“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.”

“My hope is that we would begin to have a dialogue in this country about the importance of civility. We can have strong differences, but it does seem to me that most of the country believes it's gone to critical mass in what I would call the professional class across the political spectrum - left and...”

“I would say that we have not completely cracked the code of the '60s. We are still finding our way through that time.”

“What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.”