133 Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

I think President Bush had a very hard 2005. But he turned a corner on December 15, I believe, in Iraq with the elections there. And he seems to have kind of picked up an offensive spirit again.

The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.

When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.

You live your life as a biography and you have chapters and how you handle yourself in time of adversity and crises defines you.

Usually, one day in a century rises above the others as an accepted turning point or historic milestone. It becomes the climactic day, or 'the day,' of that century.

TR is the perfect ex-president to study as a role model. He attained almost bigger stature out of the White House than within.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a week-long catastrophe. In truth, it's better to view it as an era.