Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incest...
Freedom is not enough.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.
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.
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose. I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. Better inside the tent pissin...
To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and...
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.