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 think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new m…

- Douglas Brinkley

Animals interest me more than anything else.

- Douglas Brinkley

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

- 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 level? All …

- 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 live up to.

- Douglas Brinkley

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

- Douglas Brinkley

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 othe…

- 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