Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

• I can teach it round or flat.

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• I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

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• I want every family in America to have a carpet on the floor and a picture on the wall. After bread, you’ve got to have a picture on the wall.

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• Let’s press the flesh.

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• So dumb he can’t fart and chew gum at the same time.

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• I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy’s window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket.

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• Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.

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• You let a bully come into your front yard, and the next day he’ll be on your porch.

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• I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time…a progressive who is prudent.

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• A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.

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• 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.

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

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• You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

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• You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

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

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• Whoever won’t fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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• While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

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• Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.

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• 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.

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

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Birth:	27th August, 1908
Death:	22nd January, 1973
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

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