 I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam. |
| Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it. |
| Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. |
| A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. |
| 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. |
| I'm the only president you've got. |
| When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. |
| 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 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. |
| 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 feel like I just grabbed a big juicy worm with a right sharp hook in the middle of it. |
| 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. |
| While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. |
| Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid! |
| Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. |
| I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence. |
| 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. |
