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Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes and Quotations
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It's knowing what's right. There is but one way for a president to deal with the Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it's really going to work, the relationship between the president and the Congress has got to be almost incestuous. Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other, to let her have it. A president's hardest task is not to do what's right, but to know what's right. 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 pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood. Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough? 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. Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right. 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. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. |