"You know, we’re taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected." ― Robert Caro Topic(s): Power More From Robert Caro "If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people." "I don’t think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works." "You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy." More In Power "Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."― Robert Staughton Lynd "Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country."― Ambrose Bierce "The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious."― Jean Rostand