President Johnson Quotes:

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

- Richard M. Nixon

topic: Thinking, President, Towns, President Johnson

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

- William Westmoreland

topic: Brother, War, Military, President Johnson

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Country, Political, Enemy, President Johnson, Third World Countries

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Couple, Believe, College, Off To College, President Johnson

My dad challenged every president from President [Dwight] Eisenhower and Vice President [Richard] Nixon to President [J.F] Kennedy, Vice President [Lindon] Johnson to President Johnson and Vice President [Hubert] Humphrey. It`s challenging the administrations to do the right thing.

- Al Sharpton

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Dad, Challenges, President, Dwight, President Johnson

President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it.

- Daniel Ellsberg

topic: People, President, Way, President Johnson

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

- John Garamendi

source: "The Fiscal Cliff Can’t Be Solved by Throwing Seniors Over the Cliff" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

topic: Senior, Law, Promise, Health Coverage, President Johnson

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

- J. William Fulbright

topic: War, Japan, People, Bangkok, President Johnson

With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of war exists with North Vietnam. Previous congressional resolutions of support provide only limited authority. Although Congress may decide that the previously approved resolution on Vietnam given President Johnson is sufficient, the issue of a declaration of war should at least be put before the Congress for decision.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

topic: War, Issues, Support, Declaration Of War, President Johnson

These economic, social, cultural and educational causes of opportunity inequality are complex. And they will not be solved by continuing with the same stale Washington ideas. Five decades and trillions of dollars after President Johnson waged his War on Poverty, the results of this big-government approach are in.

- Marco Rubio

source: Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

topic: Educational, War, Opportunity, War On Poverty, President Johnson

The consequences of President Johnsons campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

- Eric Alterman

topic: Military, Party, Deception, President Johnson

The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts serving poor children to compensate for issues related to poverty. Since the enactment of NCLB, the focus on mitigating poverty has been replaced by a focus on accountability as measured by test scores.

- Pedro Noguera

topic: Children, War, School, Test Scores, War On Poverty

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Thinking, Light, Ideas, President Johnson, Valentino

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

- Marc Veasey

source: "Celebrating LBJ’s Legacy: A Reminder of Texas’ Civil Rights Challenges Today" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2014.

topic: Rights, Appreciate, Justice, President Johnson