I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy’s window, and say it smells like roses.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONBetter to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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 favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
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Any man who’s not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.
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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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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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Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition. Well, they are still radical ideas.
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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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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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Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don’t want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.
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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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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 hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
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