{"author":"Tom Brokaw","author_id":"Tom+Brokaw","total_quotes":31,"quotes":[{"text":"You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["news","content","you "],"id":7264,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["day","good","man "],"id":19983,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Roone Arledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["energy","news","programming "],"id":32361,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["curiosity","changes","me "],"id":64352,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"These are the dilemmas for cancer patients. Who and what to believe? A particular treatment is not foolproof, or as many medical experts remind us, is not math, with a fixed and certain outcome.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["cancer","cancer-fighter"],"id":72436,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"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.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["light","great","memory "],"id":73179,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["success","marriage","stars "],"id":145153,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"We lost our way and allowed greed and excess to become the twin pillars of too much of the financial culture. We became a society utterly absorbed in consumption and dismissive of moderation.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["culture","greed","financial "],"id":180919,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"There's a lot of arrogance in the medical community. There are good, reliable websites you can go to for information - the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["good","community","information "],"id":185818,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"},{"text":"The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.","author":"Tom Brokaw","tags":["depression","greatest "],"id":212660,"author_id":"Tom+Brokaw"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}