Lyndon B. Johnson Political Quotations

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

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

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.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

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.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

If anybody has any idea of hoarding our silver coins, let me say this. Treasury has a lot of silver on hand, and it can be, and it will be used to keep the price of silver in line with its value in our present silver coin. There will be no profit in holding them out of circulation for the value of their silver content.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.