“You aren't learning anything when you're talking.”
Learning
“One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.”
PoliticsAll Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson
“Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.”
Peace“Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.”
History“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.”
Future“We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.”
Home“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.”
Women“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.”
Home“The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.”
Failure“Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
Learning“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.”
Relationship“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”
Faith“We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.”
Age“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.”
Marriage“I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.”
Society“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.”
Men“Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.”
Faith“Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.”
Communication“The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.”
Business“This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.”
War“The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.”
Freedom