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PEGGY NOONAN Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the si...
BOB GUNTON She was the bravest person I ever knew.
HARPER LEE Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
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JESSE JACKSON Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
ROBERT CARO In truth, there will never be enough power in the presidency for an incumbent to make good on a pure...
STEPHEN SKOWRONEK The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. ...
GEOFFREY WARD Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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FRED VOSS I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until ever last one of us was gone.
A.J. EVERSLEY In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union,...
JOE LHOTA He was an individualist if there ever was one. He was his own person.
JIM GRAHAM I told Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson, then age 105, that she was the only person over 80 who I'd ever met ...
PATRICIA MULCAHY Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and ...
H. R. MCMASTER He was an extremely modest person, one of the humblest people I knew, although some people might not...
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KRIS NOEL I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
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JERRY CARTER I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I neve...
PHIL HARTMAN The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
LARRY BIRD The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson,
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JACK RUBY So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of...
NICK CANNON Octavia was the only person in the world who truly knew him. There was no one else he really cared a...
KASS MORGAN I kinda got talked into letting him stay here for a little while. I knew he was a bad person, I neve...
CARLOS CASILLAS Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew...
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VIKRANT PARSAI James Lewis was the first athlete I ever coached who really touched my heart. He was a special, spec...
DALE MAYS Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on,...
THOMAS MALLON When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnso...
JIM BROWN He was the worst farmer of anyone I ever knew.
BURR UDALL People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about hi...
CARSON MCCULLERS Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a fail...
PAT BUCHANAN Everybody loved him. There was not one person that did not think highly of him. I knew he was a grea...
LAURIANNA SARGENT Nobody ever called me any OH MY GOD you mean that guy that one that set himself on FIRE JOSS WHEDON I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my presiden...
JACK VALENTI It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war...
SALMAN RUSHDIE He never knew my name, He never knew my name. And though I never met him, I knew him just the same, ...
BOB DYLAN Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and...
JOE KLEIN I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE While the train was going by, I knew that a man will go away without ever having reached anywhere, a...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER Every day there was tension. I worked under terrible pressure. I was afraid that at any moment, I mi...
MOHAMED SIFAOUI He was a person who knew exactly what he wanted to do and was willing to make the sacrifice to do it...
BETH FRY Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon.
MICHEL AOUN When I was introduced to Johnson he was a freshman Congressman.
ERICH LEINSDORF Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!
RACHEL BROSNAHAN Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of Them was Slytherin and he wa...
JACK THORNE If we knew and if he knew (who killed Moxley), he would be the first one to rat the person out, no m...
MICKEY SHERMAN I think Chris was one of the most considerate men I ever knew. I don't know that he ever had a bad w...
BOB CHASE I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter.
JEAN SMART If you live in an environment like that, everybody wants to blame somebody. In my mind, the biggest ...
LEE COOK When I looked at the scoreboard and he was 2-under through four holes, I knew the only person who ha...
RORY SABBATINI Twenty-five dollars or I walk out that door,’ he said. It was probably a phrase never ever said be...
TERRY PRATCHETT He was probably one of the most hard-working, caring people you'd ever meet. He had a great degree o...
BOB MCDONALD The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I was 22 years old when I met Robert Johnson. I was there the night he was poisoned.
DAVID EDWARDS I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS He was the tallest kid I ever knew. That's how we started talking.
QUINTYN ELDRIDGE I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re...
URSULA K. LE GUIN I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contempor...
STEVIE WONDER BLUE SWEATER

Bom Bom...
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Do you hear tha...
COLLEEN HOOVER During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott...
ROBERT DALLEK Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost th...
ROBERT CARO In high school, in sport, I had a coach who told me I was much better than I thought I was, and woul...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI The only person of all the contestants I have shown a million to - and it's only relevant afterwards...
CHRIS TARRANT You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudi...
BUCK O'NEIL He was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acute...
JOHN GREEN I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.
JOAN DIDION There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was ac...
PATRICK NESS I think the greatest player I've ever played against was Magic Johnson. Next, was Larry Bird. Th...
JOHN SALLEY He was one of the better carpenters I knew.
JAMES NASH Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had d...
WINNIE THE POOH The year 2005 was a solid one for Johnson and Johnson, despite significant challenges.
WILLIAM WELDON He never was my best range player. He was probably the quickest guy I ever coached.
LARRY PENLEY He had hundreds of friends. He was the most generous person you knew.
BRIAN PENN I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my...
MAYSOON ZAYID Nobody ever dared with Frank, because he had such mood swings, and you never knew how he was going t...
DON RICKLES He was the holiest person I've ever been in the presence of. It's hard to describe, other than he ha...
JERRY FRIEDMAN I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to sta...
J. COLE All he ever knew of her was who he saw every day. All I am is who I am every day. All anyone is to a...
CHARLES YU But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will l...
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LYNDON B. JOHNSON Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON [The day the Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the party leaders placed a call to the Whit...
LYNDON JOHNSON Negro poverty is not white poverty, ... Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But t...
LYNDON JOHNSON we just added a couple of zeroes to it.
LYNDON JOHNSON There may be another coup, but I don't know what we can do,
LYNDON JOHNSON I wrote once every two or three weeks for about a year, ... and then about a year ago, I got an e-ma...
LYNDON JOHNSON I blame the politicians, ... The Air Force has a manual on how to fight a war. You hit them as hard ...
LYNDON JOHNSON You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,...
LYNDON JOHNSON The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
LYNDON JOHNSON I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she...
LYNDON JOHNSON I got the name when I was 13, ... I got in a fight with another boy at a Sunday school picnic. Mr. S...
LYNDON JOHNSON One of every 16 planes was shot down,
LYNDON JOHNSON These forces should be adequate to help meet the rights of citizens to walk peaceably and safely wit...
LYNDON JOHNSON It doesn't hurt him. He likes it.
LYNDON JOHNSON We often say how impressive power is. But I do not find it impressive at all. The guns and the bombs...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON We are in the midst of a great transition from narrow nationalism to international partnership.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; s...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to g...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its po...
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON The American people have a right to air that they and their children can breathe without fear.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our ow...
STEWART B. JOHNSON Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our...
CHARLES B. JOHNSON Writing is my refuge. It's where I go. It's where I find that integrity I have.
CHARLES B. JOHNSON We won, so what more can you say? We would've liked to break a record, but that didn't happen tonigh...
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