Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
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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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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.
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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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This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.
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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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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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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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No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
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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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I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.
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