It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

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

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

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.

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

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.

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.

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.

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

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.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

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.

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.

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.

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.

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

Barack Obama's name will be the one on the peace prize, but his speech and his manner could become a gift for generations to come.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it.

Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

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 believe you make your own luck. My motto is 'It's always a mistake not to go.'

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

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 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 had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

I had fractures in my spine that had to be repaired that came as a big surprise; nobody warned me that I might get some really severe, threatening fractures. It was painful, and I lost two inches of height, bang!

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.

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 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.

I have no problem whatsoever with a kind of political overview or an ideological overview for any of these outlets as long as it's transparent. We know where Breitbart stands, we know where Fox stands, where MSNBC stands. So, people go in with an understanding of that.

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.

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

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

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.

I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government... completes its investigation.'