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What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

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Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

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The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

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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.

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In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.

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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 it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

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You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

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

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When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: October 30th, 1935

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