{"author":"Robert A. Caro","author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"The farm work they hated was the only work they knew. Often, even the basic skills of plumbing or electricity or mechanical work were mysteries to them – as were the job discipline and the subtleties that children raised in the industrial world learn without thinking about them; starting work on time, working set hours, taking orders from strangers instead of their father, playing office politics.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["acculturation","culture","culture-shock","education","job-training"],"id":1146,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"A newcomer could ascertain the identity of a town's true leaders – which storekeeper was respected, which farmer was listened to other farmers – only through endless hours of subtle probing of reticent men.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["influence","leadership","relationships","retail-politics"],"id":5675,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: 'It would kill him if he relaxed.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["idolatry","job","leisure","relaxation","vocation"],"id":15351,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["curiosity"],"id":19465,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["loyalty","patriotism"],"id":24339,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"Few emotions are more ephemeral in the political world than gratitude: appreciation for past favors. Far less ephemeral, however, is hope: the hope of future favors. Far less ephemeral is fear, the fear that in the future, favors may be denied.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["influence","leadership"],"id":32643,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"Its size, the House was an environment in which, as one observer put it, members “could be dealt with only in bodies and droves.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["influence","leadership","peer-pressure"],"id":42879,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold out to the end of the film as there was in the film itself.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["adaptation","entertainment","technology"],"id":45242,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children; they are grown-ups – adults who had never, since they left school, had anything productive to do; adults in the embittered by years of suffering and hardship. The President's Advisory Commission on Education was to warn of a whole lost generation of young people.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["bitterness","education","opportunity","poverty"],"id":48276,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"},{"text":"The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as 'seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.","author":"Robert A. Caro","tags":["authenticity","job","relationships","vocation"],"id":56993,"author_id":"Robert+A.+Caro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}