Assistants Quote by Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

“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…

— Robert A. Caro

Ted Kennedy was in the Senate for 40 years. Tip O'Neill for 35 years. John Kerry in the Senate for 30 some odd years.…

— Michael Capuano

Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.

— Calvin Jillson

“In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a purely constructive leadership project, and…

— Stephen Skowronek

[A] re-elected McConnell, with a Republican majority, would, he says, emulate his model of majority leadership - the 16 years under a Democrat, Montana'€™s…

— George Will

President Lyndon Johnson was very, very unpredictable. We never knew for sure what he is going to do next, and he preferred to have…

— Clint Hill

“It is not clear who will bring to the Whitehouse those useful commodities of vivid language, a sense of history and most important -…

— Robert A. Caro

I had always heard that Mitch McConnell was a master legislator and a true loyalist to this institution. But in the 18 months I've…

— Tina Smith

Seniority actually means something in the Senate.

— Lisa Murkowski

The Senate was the equivalent of an aristocracy at the beginning. Senators were not even elected; they were appointed in the early days. Then…

— Rush Limbaugh