Johnson Quote by Robert Caro Download Open image “Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work” — Robert Caro ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Johnson Johnson Majority Leader Leadership Lyndon johnson Made Majority Majority leader Senate Senate Work States United United states
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro 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… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
Volumes in the series on Lyndon Johnson, including Master of the Senate and The Path Power, describe how Johnson created resources out of nothing… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign… — James K. Polk Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the… — H. R. McMaster Copy Share Image
The majority in the Senate is prepared to restore the Senate's traditions and precedents to ensure that regardless of party, any president's judicial nominees,… — Mitch McConnell 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 important -… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
I saw a Harry Reid statement saying, there's nothing in the Constitution that says the Senate has to act on any presidential nominee. Well,… — Nina Totenberg Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Neil Young and Bob Dylan are my main influences. — Cody Simpson Copy Share Image
[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Look at what I am proposing, and we [wih Bernie Sanders] have a vigorous agreement here. We both want to reign in the excesses… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee… — Alvin Lee Copy Share Image
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. — William Westmoreland Copy Share Image
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
They still talk about the night that Augie Pabst, a fresh-faced heir to the brewing fortune, drove a rented Falcon into the swimming pool… — Brock Yates 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)
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