Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— 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

“The failed deal crushed McClure, precipitating a nervous breakdown in April 1900 that propelled him to Europe to undergo the celebrated “rest-cure”…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

“Elizabeth Blair of brother Frank: he could “not let even a great man set his small dogs on him without kicking the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Roosevelt and Root deputized Taft to inform the Holy See that the United States would purchase the lands for a fair price…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The meanest man in the world,” he remarked, “is the man who forgets the old friends that helped him on an early…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so…

— 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

I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents,…

— 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

What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“With McClure’s support, Steffens embarked on an odyssey. For the better part of three years, he called on people in St. Louis,…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“For better than thirty years, as a working historian, I have written on leaders I knew, such as Lyndon Johnson, and interviewed…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

“I find that without a place to work, it is difficult to work. I look forward with the greatest pleasure to the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The more you read about a subject, he advised me, the more interesting it will seem.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or…

— 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