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Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
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She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.
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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted prin...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occu...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I'd much rather have that fellow inside my tent pissing out, than outside my tent pissing in.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up ...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
A man without a vote is a man without protection.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!"

In 1966 upon being told that President Charles DeGau...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small p...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one sing...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
He’s [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then...
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
[The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the Whit...
LYNDON JOHNSON
Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But t...
LYNDON JOHNSON
we just added a couple of zeroes to it.
LYNDON JOHNSON
There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,
LYNDON JOHNSON
I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-ma...
LYNDON JOHNSON
I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard ...
LYNDON JOHNSON
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,...
LYNDON JOHNSON
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
LYNDON JOHNSON
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON JOHNSON
I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. S...
LYNDON JOHNSON
One of every 16 planes was shot down,
LYNDON JOHNSON
These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely wit...
LYNDON JOHNSON
It doesn't hurt him. He likes it.
LYNDON JOHNSON
We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; s...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to g...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its po...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our ow...
STEWART B. JOHNSON
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our...
CHARLES B. JOHNSON
Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
CHARLES B. JOHNSON
We won, so what more can you say? We would've liked to break a record, but that didn't happen tonigh...
LYNDON FERNS