If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
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I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems – the answer for all the problems of the world – come to a single word. That word is “education.”
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Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
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But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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It’s too bad, but the way American people are, now that they have all this capability, instead of taking advantage of it, they’ll probably just piss it all away.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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