A biography for Lyndon B. Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.”
“I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.”
“The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.”
“Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.”
“Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.”
“Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.”
“While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.”
“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
“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 President.”
“It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.”
“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.”
“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.”
“When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.”
“Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.”
“Freedom is not enough.”
“John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.”
“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.”
“You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.”
“If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.”
“If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.”