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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm the only president you've got.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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.
Lyndon B. Johnson

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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