Lyndon B. Johnson President Quotations

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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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.

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.

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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.

Every President wants to do right.

President Can't Swim.

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

I'm the only president you've got.

Free speech, free press, free religion, the right of free assembly, yes, the right of petition... well, they are still radical ideas.

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for.