Lyndon Johnson

“If you want something like the presidency, or being a billionaire, I think that was my quote, not his like the presidency, you should presume there is someone out there who will devote all their time, money, relationships, sense of ethics, everything, in sacri…”

“One trait I actually think Robert Caro shares with Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses is the ruthlessness that all three of them have and all three of them use to get what they actually want.”

“And so just like Caro had to turn every page, Lyndon had to count every vote. It is just the way they work, and it is an innate part of their being, and it stems from the relationship with their father. The perpetual need to escape, to run from a great source …”