Quotes by Douglas Brinkley

"John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood."

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

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"I feel like I'm always learning from people."

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"It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills."

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