There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
