Quotes By Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

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

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

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

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

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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

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

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.