Quotes About Johnson

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

Why, sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it must have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

Johnson, taking over after Kennedy was murdered and after the Kennedy patched-up advisory commitment had failed, vowed that he was not going to be the President of the United States who lost the Great Society because he lost Saigon. In the end it would take the tragedy of the Vietnam War and the election of Richard Nixon (the only political figure who could probably go to China without being Red-baited by Richard Nixon) to exorcise those demons, and to open the door to China.

The Kennedys demanded loyalty out of confidence, Johnson demanded it out of insecurity.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Boys, it is just like the Alamo. Somebody should have by God helped those Texans. I'm going to Vietnam.

Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

As an undergrad at Columbia College in Chicago, I came across 'Boondocks,' and then I watched the 'Boondocks' television show.

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

I don't agree with the theory that removing grass and pace from the pitch nullifies Mitchell Johnson.

Magic Johnson is one of the greatest players to ever play... he's the best point guard to ever play, so I can learn a lot of things from him.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.