Quotes by Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate

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leadership communication listening negotiation charisma rhetoric humility mentoring motivation manipulation vision persuasion loyalty patriotism influence parenthood servant-leadership politics power status-quo compromise dependence inspiration idolatry job leisure relaxation vocation counseling emotions

“Lyndon Johnson’s sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that i...”
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
communication persuasion rhetoric

“(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate”
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
charisma communication

“That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.”
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
loyalty patriotism

“The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he’s not telling you,” he said. “The most important thing he has to say is what he’s trying not to say.”
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
listening negotiation

“He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.”
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
leadership listening negotiation

“Recalling his mother’s endless drudgery, (Senator) Richard (Russell) Jr. was to say that he was ten years old before he saw his mother asleep; previously, he had “thought that mothers never had to ...”
— Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate
parenthood servant-leadership