Quotes by : Robert A. Caro

Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten....

It was Abraham Lincoln who struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led....

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with....

Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors.....

Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words....

The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most....

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness....

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected,....