Doris Kearns Goodwin

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Through the last days of May and the early days of June, Eleanor”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“FORTY THOUSAND VISITORS descended upon Chicago in the middle of May 1860, drawn”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The press of visitors, a New York Times reporter observed, never seemed “to try the President’s strength or impair his good temper.”…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of Lincoln that, "His confidence and compassion increase…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The vice presidency “ought to be abolished,” he told his friend Leonard Wood. “The man who occupies it may at any moment…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“More accustomed to relying upon himself to shape events, he took the greatest control of the process leading up to the nomination,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

There are 20,000 million books I could have to read, but I can pick the ones and know that I'm learning something…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The U.S. Senate presented the most powerful obstacle to any progressive reform. Because senators at the time were elected by state legislatures…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

You can't start out at 20 in whatever your profession is and say, "I want to win an Olympic medal," or "I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Wilson argued that “the wealth of America” lay in its small businesses, its towns and villages. “Its vitality does not lie in…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“York boss William Barnes issued an acid personal attack: “Mr. Roosevelt’s departure for Chicago was inevitable. Undignified as it is, and impotent…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“He called me "Bubbles," a pet name he had chosen, he told me, because I seemed to enjoy so many things. Anxious…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Roosevelt reasoned, “if the Vice-Presidency led to the Governor Generalship of the Philippines, then the question would be entirely altered.” That post…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I opened the curtain and entered the confessional, a dark wooden booth built into the side wall of the church. As I…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Tolstoy went on to observe,"This little incident proves how largely the name of Lincoln is worshipped throughout the world and how legendary…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted the larger world. Like Edith, Theodore filled pages…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've been to the White House a number of times.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty,” Henry Demarest Lloyd”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin