Quotes by David Brinkley

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

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

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

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.

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.