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.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONThe vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
More Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes
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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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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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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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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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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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I’m the only president you’ve got.
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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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The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
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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 have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.
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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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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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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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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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