Johnson Quotes

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president. (Jack Valenti)
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
I'd like to think that the nature of the two teams - Boston being a championship team over the years and the Lakers, same thing - was a lot bigger than Larry Bird or Magic Johnson. View quote
Oscar Robertson
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean dogma influenced each of them. View quote
Ravi Zacharias
Johnson observed that he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There is no arguing with Johnson, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book! View quote
Bobby Fischer
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson. (Randall Jarrell)
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job. View quote
Stephen Ambrose
Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven-where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with-he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge. View quote
Junot Diaz
My house got robbed in New York. I didn't even call the police. I wanted to, but I couldn't. My crib is too nice. It's not that it's too nice, but it's too nice for me. You know how the police are in New York. Soon as I open the door, they'll be like, "He's still here! Open and shut case, Johnson. Apparently this black guy broke in and hung up pictures of his family everywhere. Never seen anything like it." View quote
Dave Chappelle
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. View quote
William Westmoreland
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. View quote
Ato Boldon
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. View quote
Billy Eckstine
Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. View quote
Bob Gunton
I was introduced to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. The young Congressman was very friendly. View quote
Erich Leinsdorf
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. (Erich Leinsdorf)
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. View quote
Jane Porter
In 1964, I tried to convince my grandfather, who was active in the New York City firefighters union, to vote for Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson because at the time I thought his approach to limited government was right on. View quote
Joe Lhota
Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally. View quote
Muddy Waters
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world. View quote
Robert Caro