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That bitch of a war killed the lady I really loved
the Great Society.

We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

This is not a jungle war, but a struggle for freedom on every front of human activity.

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.

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

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

Liberty is not enough.

He's [Gerald Ford] a nice guy but he played too much football with his helmet off.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can ... Have I done enough?

Guns and bombs, rockets and warships, are all symbols of human failure.

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

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

If there is one word that describes our form of society in America, it may be the word-voluntary.

I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

I am a compromiser and maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system works.

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone's achievement.

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.

He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources
because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

We cannot have government for all the people until we first make certain it is government of and by all the people.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

Every citizen, regardless of his race, creed, or color, is entitled to equal justice.

I don't have any handicap. I am all handicap.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.

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

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.

John ain't been worth a damn since he started wearing $300 suits.

I feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it.

We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

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

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.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

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

The great society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goods than with the quantity of their goods.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

Hug your friends tight, but your enemies tighter ? hug ?em so tight they can?t wiggle.

Today our problem is not making miracles, but managing them.

For the first time in our history it is possible to conquer poverty.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

Every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age.

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

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.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

Any man who's not willing to take half a loaf in a negotiation, well, that man never went to bed hungry.

The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a reality.

It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

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

All of us realize that war requires action. What is sometimes harder for us to realize is that peace and neutrality also require action.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

President Can't Swim.

I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Voting is the first duty of democracy.

We must change to master change.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

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

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

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

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.