Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

• 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

  Morning, Humorous, Swimming

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Office, Political, Politics

  "Presidential Anecdotes" by Paul F. Boller, 1981.

• I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Powerful, Political, Politics

• All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Phones, Needs, Answers

• If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lines, Politics, Rooms

• If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Ideas, Political

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.783, Best Books on

• 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.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, President, Politics

• A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Presidential, Tasks

  State of the Union address to Congress, 4 Jan. 1965, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson 1965 vol. 1, p. 9

• It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Party, Two, Political

• You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Politics, Littles

• We live amid falling taboos. In our crowded little hour of history we have seen how the prejudice of religion no longer can bar the way to the White House. Some of you may live to see the day when the prejudice of sex no longer places the Presidency beyond the reach of a greatly gifted American lady. Long before them, I hope you will see a woman member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In Congress and in our State Legislatures we need more women to bring their sensitive experience to the shaping of our decisions.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Sex, Women, Fall

• I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Thinking, Political, Politics

• As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past--to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority's whims and the minority's rights.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Reflection, Past, Equality

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