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.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the community and into the family, and the nature of the individual. These differences are not racial differences. They are solely and simply the consequence of ancient brutality, past injustice, and present prejudice.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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 to let her have it.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

— Lyndon B. Johnson