Doris Kearns Goodwin

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

“I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.”

“Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.”

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

“The author writes that key FDR aide Harry Hopkins was in such poor health near the end of his boss's second term that one observer said he didn't know how Hopkins could possibly report to the president. But, at the onset of war and genuine national emergency, Hopkins was animated with a new sense of purpose.”

“If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.”

“Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.”