Robert Caro Quotes

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

  Robert Caro

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• 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 for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go – quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

  Robert Caro

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• Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people’s lives every day.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Power

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• Robert Moses wasn’t elected to anything. We’re taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.

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• My predictions are notably inaccurate.

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• Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

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• The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

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

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• Sometimes during a ballet I’ll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

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• You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you’re in another world.

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• The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.

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• The Senate is an unknowing world.

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• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

  Robert Caro

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• When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

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• You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at.

  Robert Caro

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• Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that’s written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

  Robert Caro

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• You know, we’re taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Democracy, Power

• 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 better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

  Robert Caro

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• 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 it’s always true any more. Power doesn’t always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Believe, True

• I don’t think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

  Robert Caro

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Robert Caro (51)

Birth:	30th October, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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