Quotes by : Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily....

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the....

Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull....

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

The habit of mobility had become ingrained.

One-time rival and subsequent usurper Secretary of State Seward finally settled into an assessment of....

The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines....

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people,....

According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.