“ The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. ”
- Paul Theroux- Copy
- 952
“ President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there… she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College… and she was delivering a speech there. ”
- Al Michaels- Copy
- 3.2K
“ In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson has a winner. ”
- Ada Louise Huxtable- Copy
- 2K
“ Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 3.7K
“ During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 1.3K
“ The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts. ”
- Eugene J. Mccarthy- Copy
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“ Friendship, 'the wine of life,' said Boswell, should, like a well-stocked cellar, be thus continually renewed. And Dr. Johnson added to this A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3K
“ My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I came out of the government in 1965 right after the inauguration. It was hard getting out of the government at that time, for someone like me, anyway. I got out finally after a lot of diddling and discussion with President Johnson. ”
- Burke Marshall- Copy
- 3K
“ If you like crafty stuff they are going to open the market for crafty people. When Jaime Moyer of the Seattle Mariners pitches, I love watching him. In a way it is a much more interesting game than watching Randy Johnson pitch. You are not only watching a game you are watching a thought process. ”
- Michael Lewis- Copy
- 2K
“ I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. ”
- James William Fulbright- Copy
- 645
“ ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author's ideas that they were "concatenated without abruption… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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