[TomGuy]

Some noteable Brinkley quotes:


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

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

"The House Office Building is costing more than the combined cost of the Great Pyramids at Giza, the Colossus of Rhodes and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Three of the Seven Wonders of the World combined cost less money than an office building for 200 congressmen."

"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."

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

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

"A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."

"We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense. Bill Clinton...has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore."
--David Brinkley, on the eve of Clinton's re-election, during "This Week with David Brinkley".

[ewing]

His closing barrage on 1996 Clinton while leaving the air-absolutely classic!

Peter Jennings -'Mr. Brinkley you cant say that on air..' Brinkley-'I just did, I told you I was leaving!'

Jennings and Rather could learn a lot from David Brinkley