Robert A. Caro, Master Of The Senate Quotes
People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy
The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward
With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins
He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.
(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate
Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.
He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.
That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.
its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.
While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.
The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you, ” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.
He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.