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Politics Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
- The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and…
- If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the…
- 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.
- A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
- One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the…
- I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
- 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…
- What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not…
- All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
- Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle