Quotes About Lbj

#1. A man without a vote is a man without protection.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#2. (LBJ) had what a journalist calls "a genius for analogy" - made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Robert A. Caro

#3. [T]he 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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#4. Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

Jonah Goldberg

#5. Lebedeva snapped her fingers. "It's like lying!" she exclaimed. "Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. I am a person. I do exist.

Aimee Alexander

#7. LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

Mark Steyn

#8. Consciousness Expansion went out with LBJ ... and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

Adlai Stevenson

#10. If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

Rush Limbaugh

#11. I'm going to have to bring up the nigger bill again. [Said to a southern U.S. Senator upon the occasion of the Republicans re-introducing the Civil Right Act of 1957, according to LBJ's Special Counsel Harry McPherson.]

Lyndon B. Johnson

#12. During his tenure as solicitor general Marshall solidified his relationship with LBJ over bourbon and Dr Pepper.

Evan Mandery

#13. Only super-efforts count.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#14. President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

Robert A. Caro

#15. Eisenhower on LBJ: He hadn't got the depth of mind nor the breath vision to carry great responsibility.

David Pietrusza

#16. I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

Helen Thomas

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

#18. He (LBJ) played on their fears as he played on their hopes.

Robert A. Caro

#19. The great sadness," Helms said in an oral history recorded for the LBJ Library, "was our ignorance - or innocence, if you like - which led us to mis-assess, not comprehend, and make a lot of wrong decisions.

Tim Weiner

#20. For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Mark Steyn

#21. Super Troopers is hilarious. Everybody always thought we somehow - we did Reno way, way before any of us had seen Super Troopers. It sat on the shelf for a couple years.

Thomas Lennon

#22. Drink your coffee, it clears out the brain in the morning

Sergei Lukyanenko

#23. It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

Junot Diaz

#24. Ask not what you have done for Lyndon Johnson, but what you have done for him lately.

Robert A. Caro

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

#26. FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.

Barack Obama

#27. I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

Britt Ekland

#28. For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

Jonathan Darman

#29. Progressives believe in making progress, which is why I'm proud to endorse Hillary Clinton, who I know will continue fighting to ensure our children and grandchildren can achieve their highest and best dreams.

Thomas Perez

#30. Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed.

Robert A. Caro

#31. No matter what office LBJ assumed he lifted greater than when he found it.

David Pietrusza

#32. The equality of tolerance is not that far from indifference, and very far from the equality of opportunity that LBJ envisioned.

Jedediah Purdy

#33. A book that is shut is but a block.

Thomas Fuller