Robert Caro Believe Quotations

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

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.

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.