What the American Dream means to me is the fact that - what founded this country - when I think about those posters that were put up in Europe, which…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build t…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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 th…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated.…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his cou…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

What I learned, more than anything, was that you can't have it all balanced perfectly at any one time. When I was young, it was much more balanced to…

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin

If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.

- Doris Kearns Goodwin