Roosevelt Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Roosevelt declared, arguing that “the insistence upon having only the perfect cure often results in securing no betterment whatever.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Roosevelt had defined the public interest in the previously private struggle between labor and capital.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Still, Roosevelt noted, it was “not always easy to strike the just middle,” and he inevitably made mistakes.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“There was no need to remind Roosevelt who controlled the senate. “I persistently refused to lose my temper,” he recalled. “I merely…

— 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

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

I think the most important thing I wanted to say at various times to Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was that it seemed…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Even though Lyndon Johnson's presidency was in many ways scarred forever by the war in Vietnam, and destroyed in a lot of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“All the cartoonists at heart liked him, and there was seldom or never anything bitter or really unfriendly in their portrayals of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin