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While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men - a great reader of men.
— Robert A. Caro
The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,
— Robert A. Caro
There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
— Robert Caro
If you do everything, you'll win,
— Robert A. Caro
I finish what I have to do in the office.
— Robert Caro
I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said") - in
— Robert A. Caro
Senator Harding, who declared in his inaugural address that We seek no part in directing the destinies of the world.
— Robert A. Caro
My predictions are notably inaccurate.
— Robert Caro
The Senate is an unknowing world.
— Robert Caro
The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
— Robert A. Caro
That speech (Daniel Webster's) raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
— Robert A. Caro
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
— Robert Caro
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
— Robert Caro
Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.
— Robert A. Caro
(Lyndon) Johnson created his own theater.
— Robert A. Caro
I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
— Robert Caro
Dignity was a luxury in a fight with Lyndon Johnson, a luxury too expensive to afford.
— Robert A. Caro
He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes.
— Robert A. Caro
If you can't come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.
— Robert A. Caro
Once Lyndon replied that "My doctor says Scotch keeps my arteries open." "They don't have to be that wide open," she said with a smile.
— Robert A. Caro
He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
— Robert A. Caro
their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,
— Robert A. Caro
The city governments of the United States are the worst in Christiandom - the most expensive, the most inefficient, and the most corrupt.
— Robert A. Caro
He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;
— Robert A. Caro
Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.
— Robert A. Caro
MR. CALHOUN. Never, never. MR. WEBSTER. What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN. Always, always. MR. WEBSTER. And I honor him for it.
— Robert A. Caro
They were interchangeable tools, and the catchy phrases continued without abatement.
— Robert A. Caro
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
— Robert Caro
I trained myself to be organized.
— Robert Caro
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
— Robert Caro
Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
— Robert A. Caro
Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.
— Robert A. Caro
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
— Robert Caro
He could follow someone's mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.
— Robert A. Caro
Determining the essence of different points of view (what Lyndon Johnson called "listening"),
— Robert A. Caro
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
— Robert Caro
Speaking out as he had never before done in Congress, Lyndon Johnson in 1947 opposed most of Truman's Fair Deal.
— Robert A. Caro
And he worked himself, worked himself. He had made up his mind to be President, and he was demonic in his drive.
— Robert A. Caro
Charity begins at home.
— Robert A. Caro
I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but, gentlemen, these men are not in the race.
— Robert A. Caro
He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.
— Robert A. Caro
With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins
— Robert A. Caro
The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.
— Robert A. Caro
I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.
— David Remnick
And, in fact, had Johnson's plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been "just the way it was.
— Robert A. Caro
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
— Robert Caro
Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them;
— Robert A. Caro
If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)
— Robert A. Caro
Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a living is pretty poor,
— Robert A. Caro
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
— Robert Caro
Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed.
— Robert A. Caro
When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that You don't have to explain something you haven't said,
— Robert A. Caro
We of the South,
— Robert A. Caro
Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
— Robert A. Caro
President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.
— Robert A. Caro
Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams.
— Robert A. Caro