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
After all, facts are facts, and although we may quote one to another with a chuckle the words of the Wise Statesman, “Lies – damned lies – and statistics,” still there are some easy figures the simplest must understand, and the astutest cannot wriggle out of. – Leonard Courtney, speech, August 1895, New York, "To My Fellow-Disciples at