Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI’m the only president you’ve got.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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 have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.
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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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Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
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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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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.
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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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All men are created equal’, ‘government by consent of the governed’, ‘give me liberty or give me death’. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.
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A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.
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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ‘President Can’t Swim.’
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At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom.
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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.
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The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources–because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
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In the Great Society, work shall be an outlet for mans interests and desires. Each individual shall have full opportunity to use his capacities in employment which satisfies personally and contributes generally to the quality of the Nations life.
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Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven’t given up trying.
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The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
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No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.
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When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
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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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