When I was a boy, I would talk for hours with the mothers of my friends, telling them what I had done during the day, asking what they had done, requ… - Robert A. Caro

According to attorneys close to him, attainment of the Presidency did not slake Lyndon Johnson’s thirst for money. Upon assuming the office, he announced that he was immediately placing all his business affairs in a “blind trust,” of whose activities, he said, he would not even be kept informed. But these attorneys say that the establishment of the trust was virtually simultaneous with the installation in the White House of private telephone lines to Texas lawyers associated with the administration of the trust — and they say that during the entire five years of his Presidency, Johnson personally directed his business affairs, down to the most minute details.

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

Why political power? Because political power shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.