Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONI am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men–and closes its hearts to none.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
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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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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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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.
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.
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When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter hug ‘em so tight they can’t wiggle.
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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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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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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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There is no issue of States’ rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.
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