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.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Freedom is not enough.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
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.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.