“Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.” — Robert A. Caro Johnson 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 Succeeded 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 Honor 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
“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
“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 Candidate 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
“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
“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 America 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
“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
“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 Different view 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 Adults 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
“...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
“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
“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
“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 Autocratic Copy Share Image
“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.” — Robert A. Caro Jack kennedy Copy Share Image
“Hamlet: “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.” — Robert A. Caro Hamlet Copy Share Image
“Senator Harding, who declared in his inaugural address that “We seek no part in directing the destinies of the world.” — Robert A. Caro Inaugural address 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
“I always tell the truth, so I don’t need a good memory to remember what I said”)—in” — Robert A. Caro Good memory Copy Share Image
“The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as "seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.” — Robert A. Caro Authenticity Copy Share Image
“When you come into the presence of a leader of men, you know you have come into the presence of fire; that… — Robert A. Caro Leadership Copy Share Image
“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man… — Robert A. Caro Human nature 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 Kennedy 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
“Mrs. Roosevelt felt, was the fault of society; “a civilization which does not provide young people with a way to earn a… — Robert A. Caro Life Copy Share Image
“Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often… — Robert A. Caro Buffet Copy Share Image
“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to… — Robert A. Caro Friendship 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
“Lyndon Johnson. The junior congressman saw two things that no one else saw. The first was a possible connection between two groups… — Robert A. Caro Congressman 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 Abraham lincoln Copy Share Image
“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most… — Robert A. Caro History Copy Share Image
“This man who in the pursuit of his aims could be so utterly ruthless—who would let nothing stand in his way; who,… — Robert A. Caro Betraying Copy Share Image
“In later decades, the role of the Vice President would be gradually and substantially enlarged—at the discretion of the President—but at the… — Robert A. Caro Trump 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 on to [the power] he had wielded as Majority Leader” as a “de facto Majority Leader”; Johnson “had the illusions that he could be in a sense, as Vice President, the Majority…” quote by Robert A. Caro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d29/robert-a-caro-15999_executive-branch_humphrey-was-to-say-and-now-he-was-plann_1978726.jpg)
