I Think After Sandy Hook, When Obama

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 Country - Bigger Than All The Presidents Together.

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.

I've Chosen To Be A Commentator And An Analyzer Of Politics, Rather Than An Actual Doer Of It. I Think It Could Have Gone The Other Way, But I'm Not Sorry That It Didn't, Because This Made It Easier To Be Home With My Kids And To Spend Time With Them. Writing You Can Do Right In Your House. You Don't Have To Go Anywhere.

I Am A Historian. With The Exception Of Being A Wife And Mother, It Is Who I Am. And There Is Nothing I Take More Seriously.

When You Are An Historian, There's Probably Nothing That Matters More Than To Be Recognized By Your Colleagues In Your Own Profession. I Was Lucky Enough To Win The Pulitzer Prize For History. I Had To Give A Talk Right After That To Some Young People. The Most Important Thing To Tell Them, I Think, Is That You Can't Ever Know That It's Going To Turn Out That Way.