All Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
- We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in… Best
- I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot. Inspirational
- Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. Ahead
- He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. Arrogance
- Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation. Disagree
- Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his… All
- (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense… Advantage
- An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school. Adult
- I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a… Control
- There are but a handful of times in the history of our country when there occurs a transformation so remarkable that a molt seems to… Altered
- Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals. Action
- Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age. Age
- Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then… Both
- People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals. Cabinet
- They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream. All