Lyndon B. Johnson

“There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.”

“What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.”

“To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.”

“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.”

“No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.”

“When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.”

“Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.”

“This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.”

“Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.”

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

“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 to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.”

“The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.”

“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”

“When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.”

“A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.”

“If we stand passively by while the centre of each city becomes a hive of depravation, crime and hopelessness…if we become two people, the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear for the other…then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.”

“I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.”

“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

“שלום זה דבר מאוד חמקמק. אני לא יודע מה דעתם של הווייטנאמים ואני לא יכול בדיוק לציין תאריך ומקום. אנו מנסים באופן קונסטרוקטיבי כל יום להגיע לפיתרון הולם.”

“שכנעתי את עצמי ששני דברים מספיקים בכדי לשמח את אשתך : ראשית, תן לה להאמין שהיא יכולה לעשות את זה בדרך שלה, ושנית, תן לה לעשות את זה.”