“Lincoln was as calm and unruffled as the summer sea in moments of the gravest peril;” — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“As he had done so many times before, Lincoln withstood the storm of defeat by replacing anguish over an unchangeable past with… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at… — 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… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“The young man never seemed to know what idleness was,” marveled Cutler, “and every leisure moment would find the last novel, some… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“We do not have to become heroes overnight,” Eleanor once wrote. “Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When I do research, I have done - 90 percent of my time is the research, the other ten percent is the… — 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
I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“(Lincoln reflecting on) George Washington's words: “It is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national… — 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
