Power Quotes by Robert Caro

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

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

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

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

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

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

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

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

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

My interest is in power. How power works.

— Robert Caro

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

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

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

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought…

— Robert Caro

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and…

— Robert Caro