I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
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.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
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...
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...
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
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.
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 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...
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.
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
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.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.