Lyndon Johnson Quotes

"I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.... (Richard Nixon)`s like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths, and then turns around and runs backwards. You`ll see; he`ll do something wrong in the end. He always does.

(Gerald Ford) is so dumb he can`t walk and chew gum at the same time.... He`s a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

(in 1964, paraphrasing his presidential opponent Barry Goldwater) Extremism in the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

(March 31, 1968, announcing his decision not to seek re-election) I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

(About President John F. Kennedy`s assassination) "We heard some sounds. Some thought it was a firecracker, some thought it was a gun, but the next thing I knew we were on our way to the hospital. The president was wounded. The greatest shock that I can recall was one of the men saying `He`s gone`. It was suggested that we go the the planes as quickly as we could and that we get to Washington as quickly as we could. We had decided that we would wait until Mrs. Kennedy and President Kennedy`s body were onboard. We were there 15 minutes before I took the oath"

I felt I was a trustee to carry on after he (assassinated President John F. Kennedy) had been taken from us. After I finished the execution of his dream, I had some of my own.

"I accepted the second spot because I`m a gambling man. I did my research and one in four dies in office."

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

I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard as you can right at first.

There may be another coup, but I don`t know what we can do,

Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences, radiating painful roots into the community and into the family and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice and present prejudice. They are anguishing to observe. For the negro they are a constant reminder of oppression.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

It doesn`t hurt him. He likes it.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-mail.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can`t Swim".

I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. Stiglitz, the Sunday school teacher, called me that, and it stuck.

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

These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely without injury or loss of life from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama,

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

we just added a couple of zeroes to it.

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