Douglas Brinkley Quotes

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• Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.
• 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 radio,…
• Animals interest me more than anything else.
• I feel like I'm always learning from people.
• I have a lot of books I want to write.
• It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
• John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.
• 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 live…
• Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like…
• I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record on the environment is as best…
• 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 endlessly…
• John Kerry doesn't think in terms of black-and-white. He's all gray, and he looks at all sides of the issues. That makes people think he…
• John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill,…
• When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh,…
• Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.

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