Tom Brokaw

“Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.”

“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.”

“Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'”

“I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.”

“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.”

“Our friend, Timothy J. Russert, was a man who awoke every morning as if he had just won the lottery the day before. He was determined to take full advantage of his good fortune that he couldn't quite believe and share it with everyone around him.”

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

“The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.”

“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.”

“During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps, losing their jobs, businesses and social standing, while an all-Japanese-American division fought heroically in Europe.”

“Because I lived in construction towns, we had a lot of workers who came from the South. They were all white, and, sorry to say, a number of them were pretty redneck.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to work at WSB. It was, for me, the beginning of a real education about the South.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“In Gerald Ford, the man he was in public, he was also that man in private.”

“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.”