“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country” that… — Robert A. Caro American spirit Copy Share Image
“And, in fact, had Johnson’s plan succeeded, in many ways it would indeed have been “just the way it was.” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no… — Robert A. Caro Bitterness Copy Share Image
“On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity… — Robert A. Caro Adaptation Copy Share Image
“Abraham Lincoln struck off the chains of black Americans, but it was Lyndon Johnson who led them into voting booths, closed democracy’s… — Robert A. Caro Black americans Copy Share Image
“I, sir, take a different view of the whole matter. I look upon Ohio and South Carolina to be parts of one… — Robert A. Caro South carolina Copy Share Image
“A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other… — Robert A. Caro Influence Copy Share Image
“MR. CALHOUN. Never, never. MR. WEBSTER. What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN. Always, always. MR. WEBSTER. And I honor him for… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“When Silent Cal Coolidge noted that “You don’t have to explain something you haven’t said,” — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“...his success in public relations had been due primarily to his masterful utilization of a single public relations technique: identifying himself with… — Robert A. Caro End-justifies-the-means Copy Share Image
“With a note of sadness, Wicker wrote in 1983 that “the reverence, the childlike dependence, the willingness to follow where the President… — Robert A. Caro Lyndon johnson Copy Share Image
“He won that election in the byways,” Bill Deason says. Ava Cox says: “That’s what made Lyndon Johnson be elected the first… — Robert A. Caro First time Copy Share Image
“IS WHERE POWER GOES”: the most significant factor in any equation that adds up to political power, Lyndon Johnson had assured his… — Robert A. Caro Lyndon johnson Copy Share Image
“A candidate who, night after night, tries “to capitalize on the emotion of honest patriotism, cheapens the impulse.… It is like playing… — Robert A. Caro Mother love Copy Share Image
“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.” — Robert A. Caro Kennedy Copy Share Image
“BUT WHAT, really, had the People’s Party—the farmers who called themselves “Alliancemen”—asked for? Only that when men found themselves at the mercy… — Robert A. Caro Helping hand Copy Share Image
“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into… — Robert A. Caro Lyndon johnson Copy Share Image
“It is not coincidence that, as Raymond Money puts it, “from the pyramids of Egypt, the rebuilding of Rome after Nero’s fire,… — Robert A. Caro Totalitarianism Copy Share Image
“He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of… — Robert A. Caro Books Copy Share Image
“The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical… — Robert A. Caro Acculturation Copy Share Image
“If you can’t come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have… — Robert A. Caro Business Copy Share Image
“strength with which President Kennedy dispatched his enemies”—a tribute couched in rather remarkable words: Johnson described Kennedy “when he looks you straight… — Robert A. Caro President kennedy Copy Share Image
“Humphrey was to say, and now he was planning to continue doing so, to use the chairmanship, in Humphrey’s words, “to hang… — Robert A. Caro Executive branch Copy Share Image
“We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the… — Robert A. Caro Books Copy Share Image
