ABC wouldn't be a player in the news major leagues until the 1970s, when Ruins Ar ledge brought to ABC News the energy and programming approach he had applied to ABC Sports.

— Tom Brokaw

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.

— Tom Brokaw

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

— 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

In one way or another, President Obama's critics will dog him all the way to Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, and even his admirers will continue to have doubts about his accomplishments if not his promise.

— Tom Brokaw

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

— Tom Brokaw

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, be always grown-up.

— Tom Brokaw

In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, be always grown-up. Set a standard, and stay faithful to it.

— Tom Brokaw

Is that cancer curable or just treatable.

— Tom Brokaw

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

— Tom Brokaw