Book Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them…

— Julian Bond

When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House

— Irwin Shaw

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

— David Cassidy

The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of…

— Julie London

It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing…

— Bob Woodward

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

— Richard Holbrooke

“Who the hell ain't dysfunctional these days? When the Kennedys straighten out, then maybe the rest of us should worry.”

— Cathie Pelletier

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be…

— Stephen King

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY”

— Francine Rivers