Already a congressman, to a mentor "I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Ask him about the cemeteries, Dean!" In 1966 upon being told that President Charles Gaulle had taken France out of NATO and that all U.S. troops must be evacuated off of French soil President Lyndon Johnson mentioned to Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he should ask Gaulle about the Americans buried in France. Dean implied in his answer that Gaulle should not really be asked that in the meeting at which point President Johnson then told Secretary of State Dean Rusk:"Ask him about the cemeteries Dean!" That made it into a Presidential Order so he had to ask President Gaulle. So at end of the meeting Dean did ask Gaulle if his order to remove all U.S. troops from French soil also included the 60,000+ soldiers buried in France from World War I and World War II. DeGaulle, embarrassed, got up and left and never answered.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Emancipation was a proclamation, but not a fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Freedom is not enough.

— Lyndon B. Johnson