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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. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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" Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store. "

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" When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. "

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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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" They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. "

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" It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. "

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" 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. "

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" Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. "

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" If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.' "

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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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" We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society. "

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" 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. "

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" We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. "

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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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" 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. "

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" I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. "

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

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" I'm the only president you've got. "

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