Quotes by : Doris Kearns Goodwin

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of....

The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return....

The very qualities that had led to Johnson's political and legislative success were precisely those that....

(Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and....

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves....

Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two....

People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.

I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.

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

Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract....