Failure Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The past has a way of showing us the right path. Inevitably, the same mistakes were made once before, and to know this is…

— Helen Scheuerer

If I was doing something that I really, really enjoyed I want to be perfect at it and not make mistakes and do everything…

— Grayson Allen

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

Roosevelt's strength was that he understood he would never get anything through the Republican old guard, his party, unless the public pressured Congress.

— 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

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

“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