Lady Bird Johnson Quotes - Page 2

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.

I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.

I want us to know our world. If I lived in North Georgia on up through the Appalachians, I would be just as crazy about the mountain laurel as I am about [Texas] bluebonnets.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Even though Christmas can be a lot of work, we all know the bustle is worth the bother.

Science and time and necessity have propelled us, the United States, to be the general store of the world, dealers in everything. Most of all, merchants for a better way of life.

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

We had a delicious dinner of too much.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

I have learned something about the job of being the President's wife. She is not chosen by anyone except her husband and she really has no obligations except to him.

I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.