A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. – David Brinkley
People have this illusion that all over the world, all of the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world nothing is happening. – David Brinkley
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 there were. – David Brinkley
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. – David Brinkley
As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood. – Martin Luther King,Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, 1958