Lyndon Baines Johnson

(Of his nemesis, the late former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover)
It's better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.

In 1790, the nation which had fought taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

If two men agree on everything, you can be sure one of them is doing the thinking.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

If we must disagree, let's disagree without being disagreeable.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.