Robert Caro Quotes

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.
Robert Caro

Power, True, Lord

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
Robert Caro

Life, Rest, Outside

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
Robert Caro

Mystery, Ballet, Unravel

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
Robert Caro

Long, Through, Two

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
Robert Caro

Power, Political, Democracy

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
Robert Caro

Life, Moment, Wonderful

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
Robert Caro

Important, Democracy, Minority

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
Robert Caro

Life, Sometimes, Wonderful

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.
Robert Caro

Trust, Live, Lost

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
Robert Caro

Everything, Seems, Create

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.
Robert Caro

History, Writing, Through

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
Robert Caro

Made, Become, Effort

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
Robert Caro

Life, Great, Power

I finish what I have to do in the office.
Robert Caro

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
Robert Caro

Great, Experience, Pretty

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
Robert Caro

Life, Power, Famous

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
Robert Caro

Why, Old, Until

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
Robert Caro

Life, Beauty, Enjoy

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
Robert Caro

Book, Sometimes, Timeless

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.
Robert Caro

Done, President, Credit

I trained myself to be organized.
Robert Caro

Organized, Trained

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
Robert Caro

Try, Mood, Rhythm

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
Robert Caro

Work, Long, Writing

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
Robert Caro

Political, Trying, Country

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
Robert Caro

Work, End, Getting

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 30, 1935

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