 If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim." |
| When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. |
| I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. |
| Did you ever think that making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else. |
| Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. |
| I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. |
| Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. |
| You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. |
| The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands. |
| In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. |
| This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty. |
| 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. |
| The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business. |
| What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. |
| We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. |
| The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky. |
| Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. |
| I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
