Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I am a historian. With the exception of being a wife and mother, it is who I am. And there is nothing I take more seriously.”

“I've been to the White House a number of times.”

“Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.”

“'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.”

“I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.”

“We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.”

“I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.”

“I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they love and the people they've lost... I don't want to limit it to what they did in the office, but what happens at home and in their interactions with other people.”

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

“Where's the progress that we're going to see in Afghanistan? You have to keep public support both on the economy and the war or these things will really become troubling.”