The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity, - Robert A. Caro

Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

Hamlet: “He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.