With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins - Robert A. Caro

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

To a staff member who, after talking with a senator, said he “thought” he knew which way the senator was going to vote, he snarled, “What the fuck good is thinking to me? Thinking isn’t good enough. Thinking is never good enough. I need to know!” Often, he didn’t know.

yet the realities of the democratic process in America make it almost impossible to get a road, a bridge, a housing project, a bathhouse or a park approved and built in two years — or four.