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We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.


Christie Brinkley

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DOUGLAS BRINKLEY His lack of prioritizing hurricane evacuation after Ivan, after we dodged a bullet, is criminal. He ...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY His lack of prioritizing hurricane evacuation after Ivan, after we dodged a bullet, is criminal, ......
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY They use [how much] money they've spent as a measure of success because there's very little else to ...
DAVID BRINKLEY People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are ha...
DAVID BRINKLEY If I were objective or if you were objective or if anyone was, he would have to be put away somewher...
DAVID BRINKLEY He managed to hit all the keys on the great American political piano.
DAVID BRINKLEY Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
DAVID BRINKLEY Her continuity - you know, if you connect Harriet Tubman, who died in 1913, to Rosa Parks, born in 1...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I think President Bush had a very hard 2005 with his failed efforts on Social Security and the probl...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Unfortunately, one of the biggest misperceptions the American public harbors is that Katrina was a w...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I could ride on an integrated trolley bus on the base, ... but when I left the base, I had to ride h...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY 'This child's getting old,' he muttered with stark regularity, an old-timey refrain that mountainmen...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY John Kerry had his back against the wall, and in January turned his campaign completely around.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY George McGovern said Hunter's coverage of the 1972 election was the least factually accurate but the...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY He had half their points in every quarter (in the last meeting). The emphasis was not to stop him, b...
DAN BRINKLEY We are not going to face a guard as good as Brian Morris. He had 34 points the first game, we wanted...
DAN BRINKLEY He was the guy who by his heroic actions gave a morality and dignity to the American military effort...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 18...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to tra...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa P...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you&#...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It was the key to the game. It didn't slow them down. It slowed Jeter down. It kept him on the other...
DAN BRINKLEY To Armstrong, constantly speaking about 'Apollo 11' only diminished the magic. That's wh...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you wit...
DAVID BRINKLEY The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY He cared that people understood American history in their homes. His love for America came through i...
DOUG BRINKLEY Cancer was 'the battle of my life,' he used to say.
DOUG BRINKLEY Biography tends to tilt history, because every person you are writing about becomes larger than life...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom ...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY The world of high-stakes international diplomacy can be rough and tumble, but it's more often th...
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