Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.

Doris Kearns Goodwin (born 1943) is an American biographer and historian.  In 1995, she received the Pulitzer Prize for History from her work on a biography about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II.  She has also worked as sports journalist.