You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

My interest is in power. How power works.