Quotes by : Douglas Brinkley

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn....

John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle....

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad,....

I think there's a green side to John Kerry, if you like, that he's an environmental activist. His record....

Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots,....

Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species....

If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus....

The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel....