Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThere are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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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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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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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You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.
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Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met – obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
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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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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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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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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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There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
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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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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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