Douglas Brinkley Bus Quotations

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.

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.

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

I could ride on an integrated trolley bus on the base, ... but when I left the base, I had to ride home on a segregated bus.

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.