Robert Caro

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

— Robert Caro

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on…

— Robert Caro

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain…

— Robert Caro

There's a feeling about it. You feel almost like a cabinetmaker, laying planks. There's a real feeling when you know you're getting…

— Robert Caro

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so…

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among…

— Robert Caro

I trained myself to be organized,

— Robert Caro

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has…

— Robert Caro

Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on…

— Robert Caro

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can…

— Robert Caro

I finish what I have to do in the office.

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

The Senate is an unknowing world

— Robert Caro

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life…

— Robert Caro

I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I…

— Robert Caro

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

— Robert Caro

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on…

— Robert Caro

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the…

— Robert Caro

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in…

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.

— Robert Caro