Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.

I don’t know what he was so angry about. He won…. If I had won, he would have been much better off. He would have been spared getting disgraced by Watergate.

I like Ike. But I like his running mate, Nixon, even better.

You roll back the stones and you find the slithering things of the world of Richard Nixon.

All you kiddies remember to lay off the needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

Nixon is the last candidate who couldn’t make it on the Johnny Carson Show who could make it in an election.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

During the 1960 election, I saw Richard Nixon as the winner.

I believe we will elect a new President in 2012.

Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.

I have decided to launch an Exploratory Committee to examine whether I should run for President in 2016.

I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.

I’ve studied Nixon since the Kennedy campaign. I’ve no doubt that the trail will lead to the Oval Office.

Richard Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Gerald Ford as his revenge.

Nixon is a double-barrelled, treble-shotted twister, as my old history master would have remarked; and the fact has been a matter of universal knowledge since at least 1952, when, if I remember aright the joke, “Would you buy a second-hand car from this man?” began to circulate.

I don't believe Richard Nixon ... ever shall be totally exonerated. While it's true he's been pardoned for any Federal crimes he may have committed as President, he can't escape the judgement of history.

Samuel J. Tilden says we are a nation of thieves and rascals. If that is so he ought to be President.

The only problem with drawing Nixon is restraint. Your tendency is to let your feelings come out. He's such a loathsome son of a bitch.

By all means, make him [Democrat General Lewis Cass] President, gentlemen. He will feed you bounteously – if there is any left after he has helped himself.

[Characterizing Richard M. Nixon:] ... not a man of quality and depth.

That man [Richard M. Nixon] is not fit to be President.

Senator Howard Baker selected me to be the Republicans’ lawyer in the Watergate hearings, and the Republicans really needed lawyers then.