Anything Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can…

— Joe Perry

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

— John Adams

What is understood by republican government in the United States is the slow and quiet action of society upon itself.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When I look at Franklin Roosevelt's leadership, I think the most important quality he had during the Depression and the war was this absolute…

— 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.” At one…

— 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 four hundred…

— 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 ways, he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— 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

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

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

— 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 so sad…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin