Senators came to realize that he understood not only their bills but the reasons they had introduced them; - Robert A. Caro

The rivers rose, and, when they receded, sucked more of the fertile soil back down with them, to run down the Pedernales to the Colorado, down the Colorado to the Gulf.

ONCE HE KNEW HOW to do things in Washington, he started doing them — with the same frenzied, driven, almost desperate energy he had displayed in Cotulla and Houston, the energy of a man fleeing from something dreadful.

You can get an awful lot of good done in the world if you're willing to let someone else take the credit for it.