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Political Quotes by Robert Caro
- In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the…
- You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
- Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
- I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man…
- I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved…
- Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle