I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
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. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
The bully pulpit’ is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
I think after Sandy Hook, when Obama went out, and he talked a lot about gun control and met with the parents, there was a sense that something was going to happen. But then, I guess, the power of special interests was greater than public sentiment. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian’s research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
FDR once said he was like a cat, that he would pounce and then relax. That’s much harder to do in the 24-hour cable world, because it’s almost like the press demands of you to be saying something or doing something every day. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. Doris Kearns Goodwin Read Quote
