Revisionist Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

Do we pour $40 billion into grandiose Louisiana engineering projects or do we instead put up no trespassing- signs in the areas below sea…

— Douglas Brinkley

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.

— Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

— Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling…

— Douglas Brinkley

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

— Douglas Brinkley

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to…

— Douglas Brinkley

Animals interest me more than anything else.

— Douglas Brinkley

“The popular director of OWI was Elmer Davis, an ex-CBS radioman with an admiration for the wire services and Murrow. Working closely with the…

— Douglas Brinkley

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're…

— Douglas Brinkley

“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”

— Douglas Brinkley

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened…The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream…It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk…

— Douglas Brinkley

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

— Douglas Brinkley

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

— Douglas Brinkley

I have a lot of books I want to write.

— Douglas Brinkley

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

— Douglas Brinkley