“My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of a...” — Tom Brokaw Quote

“My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.”

“I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.”

“I guess the issue that I have with all the news organizations that have a political MO, if you will, attached to them is that they sometimes jump to conclusions about what this will mean. Get ahead of themselves.”

“I don't think you can measure wealth in dollars and cents. I really don't believe that at all because there are some things that money cannot buy. One of them is health. And the other is security in your relationships and friends.”

“There are two reasons to pursue diversity and inclusion. One, because you believe one group has benefitted from hundreds of years of discrimination, or two, maybe you don't like that women make 73 cents on the dollar compared to men.”

“Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.”