David Brinkley Quotes

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

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#2. Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

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#3. This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

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#4. When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.

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#5. Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

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

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#7. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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#8. 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.

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#9. By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.

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#10. News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

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#11. She took a leap of faith and
grew her wings on the way down.

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

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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#16. A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

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

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#18. We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.

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

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