3 December 2020 Doris Kearns Goodwin Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Doris Kearns Goodwin 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.
3 December 2020 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.
