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Every President wants to do right. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry. — Gary Johnson

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. — Lyndon B. Johnson

(President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity. — Rick Perlstein

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires. — Ron Johnson

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably. — Clint Hill

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

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. — William Westmoreland

Governors were once minors. Presidents were once residents. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The American people on the ground need a clearer, stronger, Lyndon B. Johnson-type voice from their president. — Jesse Jackson

President Lyndon Johnson once said, "If the first person who answers the phone cannot answer your question, it is a bureaucracy." Don — Robert M. Gates

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure. — Robert Dallek

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right. — Lyndon Johnson

Well, Hale was one of the first people who suggested to President Johnson that there should be a commission. — Lindy Boggs

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. — Jack Valenti

People in power will lie to keep it. Honesty doesn't make you less human. — Henry Johnson Jr

People in the age of [President] Obama don't dress like they did in the age of [Lyndon] Johnson. That's for sure. — Al Sharpton

Presidents and Lyndon Johnson was really no exception, very rapidly learned the difference between a contingency plan and an authorized act. — McGeorge Bundy

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. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. — Robert Caro

President Johnson offered the middle of the road. — Lew Wasserman

I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances. — Robert Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. — Eileen Myles

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. — Lyndon B. Johnson

No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor. — Nancy Johnson

I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty. — Hank Johnson

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

Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison. — Denis Johnson

Lincoln replied:"There is a difference between secession against the Constitution and in favor of the Constitution. — Clint Johnson

If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it. — Calvin Johnson

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

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition ... well, they are still radical ideas. — Lyndon B. Johnson

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act. — Robert A. Caro

President Can't Swim. — Lyndon B. Johnson

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear. — Wilbur Mills

If there was ever a president who could be called our Charlie Browniest, it would be Andrew Johnson. — Daniel O'Brien

I'm the only president you've got. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray. — Hank Johnson

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. — Stephen Ambrose

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. — Lyndon B. Johnson