Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
LYNDON B. JOHNSONRepublicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.
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Republicans simply don’t know how to manage the economy.
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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
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If you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he’ll be on your porch and the next day he’ll rape your wife in your own bed.
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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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To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
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If we must disagree, let’s disagree without being disagreeable.
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Art is a nation’s most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
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I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.
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Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.
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I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
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If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.
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The poor suffer twice at the rioter’s hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.
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