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Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
By Lyndon B. Johnson
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
By Lyndon B. Johnson