David Brinkley Quotations

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

In the forties [1940s] in Washington it was still unusual for a rich and socially well-connected married woman to work. If she did, her husband was assumed by his peers to be unable to support a household on his own and somehow to be inadequate.

Nobody in TV makes as much money as Robert Redford, who likes to make movies for several million dollars only on the condition that they contain some sort of social message. I cannot take very seriously a social message delivered by an actor who is paid nine million dollars to deliver it, and who charges you five dollars to see it.