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Political Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
- If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can…
- I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?
- If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
- Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
- 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…
- There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going…
- A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
- There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.
- I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
- The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
- You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.
- 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…
- It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too…
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