American politics Quote by Eugene McCarthy

Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Lyndon Johnson knew this when he quipped, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t…

— Nancy Isenberg

When I found out that there was eight Presidents before George Washington, I wanted to smack somebody.

— Prince

“The second most powerful man in the country.” All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking “nothing jobs” and making them into something—something big.…

— Robert A. Caro

You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon…

— Mort Sahl

Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult men I ever met. He could be as couth as he was uncouth, as…

— Bill Moyers

“As several historians have pointed out, it would have made little sense for Fidel to do something that would risk having his country invaded…

— Lamar Waldron

[Lyndon Baines ] Johnson is a big and larger-than-life guy, we just tried to give him the dynamic range that he actually had.

— Jay Roach

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked…

— Amy Klobuchar

Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my…

— George Smathers

Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his…

— Tom Wicker