Lyndon B. Johnson

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

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity."

"I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it."

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

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

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

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

"Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me."

"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."

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

"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."

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

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."

"The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America."

"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."

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

"The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"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."

"Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

"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."

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

"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."