If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.
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.
I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.
This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
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.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
Freedom is not enough.
The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.