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 ap… - Robert A. Caro

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but, gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

for power in its most naked form, for power not to improve the lives of others, but to manipulate and dominate them, to bend them to his will. For the more one learns — from his family, his childhood playmates, his college classmates, his first assistants, his congressional colleagues — about Lyndon Johnson, the more it becomes apparent not only that this hunger was a constant throughout his life but that it was a hunger so fierce and consuming that no consideration of morality or ethics, no cost to himself — or to anyone else — could stand before it.

If you do everything, you’ll win,