Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes:
Ocupation: Historian
Life: b. January 4, 1943
Birthday: January 4
Politicians generally form alliances and not friendships. Individuals and institutions achieve their ends through continual barter. But deals are not bonds. Indeed, intense emotional involvement with anything - with issues, ideology, a woman, even a family - can be a handicap, not only consuming valuable time, but more importantly, reducing flexibility and the capacity for detached calculation needed to take maximum advantage of continually changing circumstances.
source: Doris Kearns Goodwin (2015). “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream”, p.70, Open Road Media
topic: Emotional, Issues, Alliances, Not Friends, Valuable Time
