Quotes by : Robert A. Caro

You know,' Russell said, 'we could have beaten John Kennedy on civil rights, but not Lyndon Johnson.'....

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader....

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

Lyndon Johnson knew how to make the most of such enthusiasm and how to play on it and intensify it. He....

No southerner had been elected President for more than a century, and it was a bitter article of faith....

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

He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where....

He not only had the gift of “reading” men and women, of seeing into their hearts, he also had the....

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

But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always....