Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

- Robert Caro

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held …

- Robert Caro

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

- Robert Caro

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 beli…

- Robert Caro

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, …

- Robert Caro

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell prec…

- Robert Caro

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 de…

- Robert Caro

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

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

- Robert Caro