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Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Funny, Time, Smart

The crotch, down where your nuts hang, is always a little too tight.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Nuts, Presidential, Littles
"#113 Reply All's Year End Extravaganza". Reply All Podcast, www.gimletmedia.com. December 21, 2017.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Honesty, Truth, Government

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

Lyndon B. Johnson
War, Survivor, Modern

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 you let a bully come in and chase you out of your front yard, he'll be on your porch and the next day he'll rape your wife in your own bed.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Next Day, Wife, Bully

Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Home, Should Have, Land

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspiring, Peace, Military
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.63, Best Books on

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Relationship, Unity, Together

Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Color, America, Justice
Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Hype, History, Political

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

Lyndon B. Johnson
Boys, Made, Princeton
Cited in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Wall, Powerful, Men
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Funny, Hilarious, Wisdom

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Patriotic, Knowing, Problem

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.

Our understanding of how to live with one another is still far behind our knowledge of how to destroy one another.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Understanding, Behinds, Stills
Lyndon B. Johnson (1964). “A Time for Action”

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Responsibility, Trouble, Deny
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1968). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 19”, p.910, Best Books on

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Inspirational, Light, Government

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Fighting, Next Week, San Francisco

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Government, Presidential, Purpose
Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.286, Best Books on

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Success, Leadership, Knowing

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Success, Knowing, Challenges

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

Lyndon B. Johnson
Stupid, Organization, Boots