Robert Caro Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Robert Caro quotes and sayings page 2 (writer). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 49 we have.
“Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.”
“My predictions are notably inaccurate.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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 there for three years. You had to learn that world.”
“Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don't take days off as long as I'm working on something that's supposed to be all in the same mood.”
“Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.”
“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.”
“I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.”
“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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