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 Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
You can be enormously effective for a period of time, because it's almost like there's an engine in you that needs to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What interested me most about the Kennedys was the family situation. Somehow, they had created this family that lasted over time, they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When you are an historian, there's probably nothing that matters more than to be recognized by your colleagues in your own profession.… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think with Lyndon Johnson, the most important thing I learned was that he never had the sense of security that comes… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I keep thinking that history runs in cycles, and that some day certain large issues will come before the country again. There… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will find things that are wrong. Sometimes they will even find an approach that you took wrong. If you think… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The one thing that John Kennedy did, above all else, was to energize young people to feel that they wanted to give… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When I look at Franklin Roosevelt's leadership, I think the most important quality he had during the Depression and the war was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think, as a president, you have to want respect. You can't look for love from the American people. You have to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the important qualities that I think is often overlooked is just energy. It's vitality, and sort of a life force… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I think I've learned is that you're never going to get it all right, and you can't obsess about having a fact wrong… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“This extreme treatment was among the proliferating regimens developed in response to the stunning increase in nervous disorders diagnosed around the turn of the… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that,” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“Don’t hit till you have to; but, when you do hit, hit hard.” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“After ministering each day to the hundreds of young men who had endured ghastly wounds, submitted to amputations without anesthesia, and often died without… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The value that I found in interviewing was for an educational experience, just to know that history itself is subjective, that you can't say,… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of him; they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
