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49 quotes by Robert Caro

Website http://www.robertacaro.com Notes Robert Allan Caro (born October 30, 1935) is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson. After working for many years as a reporter, Caro wrote The Power Broker (1974), a biography of New York urban planner Robert Moses, which was chosen by the Modern Library as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of...
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We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I... →

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You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

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

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The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell... →

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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.

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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant... →

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I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

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In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices... →

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I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero... →

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I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for... →

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