David Brinkley
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkleywas an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth10 July 1920
CityWilmington, NC
CountryUnited States of America
people political want
Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.
years political democracy
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddamn nonsense.
political politics journalism
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
anyone objective somewhere sort
If I were objective or if you were objective or if anyone was, he would have to be put away somewhere in an institution because he'd be some sort of vegetable.
american-journalist believe people
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
both coverage election hours night regret seven
After a long day election day, and seven hours on the set, what I said at the end of election night coverage was both impolite and unfair, and I'm sorry. I regret it.
perspective people facts
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.
television way news
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
school very-good advertisements
I'm not a very good advertisement for the American school system.
anchors matter cameras
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
sarcastic business sarcasm
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.
believe cities people
Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
government agency female
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.
husband men support
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.