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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

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. — Robert Caro

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry. George Reedy — Robert A. Caro

I always tell the truth, so I don't need a good memory to remember what I said") - in — Robert A. Caro

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will"; — 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

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion. — Robert 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

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. — 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

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why. — Robert 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

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. — Robert Caro

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it. — Robert A. Caro

A handshake, as delivered by Lyndon Johnson, could be as effective as a hug. — 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

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures. — Robert 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 think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for. — 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

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last. — Robert Caro

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. — 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

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. — 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

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert 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

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing. — Robert 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

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled. — Robert Caro

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world. — Robert Caro

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work. — Robert Caro

Johnson was insulated from reality by his hopes and dreams. — Robert A. Caro