Lbj Quotes

• The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Wall   Powerful   Men  

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.842, Best Books on

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• It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

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  Junot Diaz

  Iraq   Vietnam   Republic  

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, cited them rarely.

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  Paul Kengor

  Profound   Interesting   President  

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.

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  Barack Obama

  War   Long   President  

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• LBJ held up Detroit as a model of what the Great Society could accomplish. He was right.

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  Mark Steyn

  Detroit   Lbj   Accomplish  

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• The ‘Great Society’ has not worked and it’s put us into the modern welfare state. If you look at China, they don’t have food stamps. If you look at China, they’re in a very different situation. They save for their own retirement security…they don’t have the modern welfare state and China’s growing. And so what I would do is look at the programs that LBJ gave us with the Great Society and they’d be gone.

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  Michele Bachmann

  Retirement   Different   Looks  

  "CBS News/NJ debate transcript". National Journal debate on foreign policy and national security, www.cbsnews.com. November 13, 2011.

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• We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

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  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lbj   Guardian   Gates  

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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• Between 1965 (the beginning of LBJ's "Great Society") and 1994, welfare spending has cost the taxpayers $5.4 trillion in constant 1993 dollars. The War on Poverty has cost us 70 % more than the total price tag for defeating both Germany and Japan in World War II, after adjusting for inflation. Many believe that Welfare has destroyed millions of families and cost a huge portion of our national wealth in the process.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  War   Believe   Japan  

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• For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

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  Mark Steyn

  Black   Population   Looks  

  Mark Steyn (2011). “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon”, p.206, Regnery Publishing

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• I covered two presidents, LBJ and Nixon, who could no longer convince, persuade, or govern, once people had decided they had no credibility, but we seem to be more tolerant now of what I think we should not tolerate.

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  Helen Thomas

  Thinking   Two   People  

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

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  Rush Limbaugh

  Doe   Gone   Lbj  

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