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Top 30 Douglas Brinkley Quotes (2025 Update)

Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.”

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We’re on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer’s and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.”

2. “Forget politics. The real story is the advancements being made in medicine. We’re on the verge of conquering cancer and Alzheimer’s and numerous other diseases. The DNA revolution has just begun. Scientific advancement usually trumps politics.”

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

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination,” McCarthy wrote. “That’s all you can say about it. He’s ten times worse than the criminal.”48.”

4. “A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination,” McCarthy wrote. “That’s all you can say about it. He’s ten times worse than the criminal.”48.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “John McPhee’s 1989 book The Control of Nature, for.”

5. “John McPhee’s 1989 book The Control of Nature, for.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “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, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.”

6. “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, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “It didn’t seem to matter that Reagan made his heartfelt endorsements of traditional family values despite being divorced and so alienated from his own children that one of them would write a book about what a rotten father he had been; by the same token, the president’s failure to have made regular or even occasional visits to church hardly dimmed his appeal for the resurgent religious right.”

7. “It didn’t seem to matter that Reagan made his heartfelt endorsements of traditional family values despite being divorced and so alienated from his own children that one of them would write a book about what a rotten father he had been; by the same token, the president’s failure to have made regular or even occasional visits to church hardly dimmed his appeal for the resurgent religious right.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.”

8. “Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, No.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “I feel like I’m always learning from people.”

9. “I feel like I’m always learning from people.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “I have a lot of books I want to write.”

10. “I have a lot of books I want to write.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.”

11. “Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography – Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.”

12. “When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography – Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Animals interest me more than anything else.”

13. “Animals interest me more than anything else.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “September 15, 1950, MacArthur launched a brilliantly conceived and executed amphibious landing at Inchon, trapping a large North Korean force after walking ashore several times to ensure a good take for the cameras, his ever-present corncob pipe jutting from his jaw.”

14. “September 15, 1950, MacArthur launched a brilliantly conceived and executed amphibious landing at Inchon, trapping a large North Korean force after walking ashore several times to ensure a good take for the cameras, his ever-present corncob pipe jutting from his jaw.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.”

15. “Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.”

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Although federal revenues nearly doubled during the Reagan years, federal spending far exceeded that pace and drove the national debt from $909 billion to $2.6 trillion between 1980 and 1988, by far the highest it had ever been.”

17. “Although federal revenues nearly doubled during the Reagan years, federal spending far exceeded that pace and drove the national debt from $909 billion to $2.6 trillion between 1980 and 1988, by far the highest it had ever been.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “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 to have enemies around him.”

18. “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 to have enemies around him.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he’s ready to go after you.”

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.”

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Most Americans didn’t distinguish fame from accomplishment.”

21. “Most Americans didn’t distinguish fame from accomplishment.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “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 fascinated by the family.”

22. “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 fascinated by the family.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.”

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “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 likes to be devil’s advocate. Whatever you say, he’ll challenge you on.”

24. “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 likes to be devil’s advocate. Whatever you say, he’ll challenge you on.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.”

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

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “History will remember the Superdome debacle – caused by the dearth of evacuation buses – as “Nagin’s Folly,” mayoral incompetence of the first order.”

26. “History will remember the Superdome debacle – caused by the dearth of evacuation buses – as “Nagin’s Folly,” mayoral incompetence of the first order.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “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 up to.”

27. “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 up to.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Unlike most fine writers, he wasn’t in love with his own words.”

28. “Unlike most fine writers, he wasn’t in love with his own words.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “With soldiers coming home, trained to shoot guns, there was a marked increase in hunting and fishing. Many veterans wanted to take a well-earned month or two for recreation. In 1945, eight million hunting licenses were issued, an increase of one million licenses since the start of the war.”

29. “With soldiers coming home, trained to shoot guns, there was a marked increase in hunting and fishing. Many veterans wanted to take a well-earned month or two for recreation. In 1945, eight million hunting licenses were issued, an increase of one million licenses since the start of the war.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “We have taken forward steps in learning that wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people alive to-day,” Roosevelt said, “but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”

30. “We have taken forward steps in learning that wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people alive to-day,” Roosevelt said, “but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.”

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Douglas Brinkley Quote: “Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.”

31. “Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.”

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