While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

Follow your Dreams - They give pathway to the wonder of who you are.

Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money.

There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

Only those who put tomorrow completely into God's hand and receive fully today what they need for their lives are really secure.

Science is not wisdom.

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.

Never over think! Make a decision and take action!

So it's you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.

Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.