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"Kennedy cooked the soup that johnson had to eat." »Konrad Adenauer
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"johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over." »Herbert Mitgang
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"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 Milhous Nixon
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"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." »William Fullbright
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"We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block." »John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002
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"Patriotism having become one of our topicks, johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest." »Samuel Johnson
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"During the Samuel johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk." »Fred Allen
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"John johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria" »So I Married an Axe Murderer
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