Doris Kearns Goodwin

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax. ”

A lot of times when people are on campaigns, it can be like a movie set. ”

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ”

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. ”

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.' ”

Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”