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. JOHNSONAt 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.”
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
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Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange and different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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