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Book: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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  1. Robert A. Caro _ The Power Broker: Robert Moses

    Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality {Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself}.
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  2. Robert A. Caro _ The Power Broker: Robert Moses

    You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax. {Robert Moses}
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  3. Robert A. Caro _ The Power Broker: Robert Moses

    ...his success in public relations had been due primarily to his masterful utilization of a single public relations technique: identifying himself with a popular cause. This technique was especially advantageous to him because his philosophy--that accomplishment, Getting Things Done, is the only thing that matters, that the end justifies any means, however ruthless--might not be universally popular. By keeping the public eye focused on the cause, the end, the ultimate benefit to be obtained, the technique kept the public eye from focusing on the methods by which the method was to be obtained.
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  4. Robert A. Caro _ The Power Broker: Robert Moses

    If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? {Robert Moses}
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  5. Robert A. Caro _ The Power Broker: Robert Moses

    Hospitality has always been a potent political weapon. Moses used it like a master. Coupled with his overpowering personality, a buffet often did as much for a proposal as a bribe.
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