Quotes by Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

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We have the right to demand that if we find men against whom there is not only suspicion, but almost a certainty that th — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
(Taft's mother's) losing her firstborn had convinced her that children are treasures lent not given and that they may be — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
I read them (articles TR wrote on his honeymoon) all over to Edith and her corrections and help were most valuable to me — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, "had made both sides see themselves as they are. — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
He (William Howard Taft) had little patience with the unconscious arrogance of conscious wealth and financial success. — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I wi — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Of Teddy Roosevelt and his siblings, the author writes they were, "armed with an innate curiosity and discipline fostere — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Their lifelong love of learning, their remarkable wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, was fostered primarily by their f — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
She was never satisfied with anything less than perfection, but she was no grind. She was too interested in people. — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Whereas Taft discouraged the young Yale student from extracurricular reading, fearful it would detract from required cou — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with ch — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself i — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of hi — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fas — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Edith (the future Mrs. Teddy Roosevelt) developed a lifelong devotion to drama and poetry. "I have gone back to Shakespe — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world. — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action. — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, "I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great le — Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism