Tom Brokaw Quotes

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

I want to make America better!

The march of progress must continue.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

The reformer does not want to move left; he wants to move forward.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

I do not believe that the Great Society is the ordered, changeless, and sterile battalion of ants.

We're going to make America a better place.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, decent, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seeds of things to come.

We must liberate our concepts of justice, our laws and legal institutions from the bonds which hold a tight grip on us although they are incompatible with the needs of our century.

I am a friend to the reformation generally of whatever can be made better

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

Progress does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability.

I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.