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.
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.
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
Whether we are New Dealer, Old Dealer, Liberty Leaguer or Red, whether we agree or not, we still have the right to think and speak how we feel.
When I was a boy we didn’t wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn’t fear me.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.
When things haven’t gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.
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.
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office – and by personal conviction – I am sworn to uphold that tradition.
I don’t have any handicap. I am all handicap.
It is the excitement of becoming – always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining.
He’s got great vision. If he can get outside, he can take it all the way. That’s what we were worried about.
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.
All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.
The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.