Logo
Quote by Robert Caro
There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roo

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And its never come back. Its a trend that, if youre liberal, is really discouraging. – Robert Caro

Other quotes by Robert Caro

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

Category:
History
Author
Robert Caro
Read Quote

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all thats written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. – Robert Caro

Category:
Learning
Author
Robert Caro
Read Quote

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

Category:
famous
Author
Robert Caro
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Trust
category

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man. – Robert Mugabe

Category:
Trust

Trust is the first step to love. – Munshi Premchand

Category:
Trust

Trust me, the only real way to understand Chic is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early Chic records to impress my jazz friends. – Nile Rodgers

Category:
Trust

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trusts work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis. – Elaine Paige

Category:
Trust

Random Quotes

People go to the movies to watch a film and all theyre thinking about is the actresss cellulite they saw in a magazine. – Robert Carlyle

Category:
movies

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. – William Temple

Category:
Humor

My heros, my dreams, and my future lie in Yankee Stadium and they cant take that from me. – Derek Jeter

Category:
Dreams

The most dangerous people are the ignorant. – Henry Ward Beecher

Category:
Danger