Quotes About Johnson

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.

the Johnson County commissioners, who "talked very feelingly," he said. "They resent the many slurs cast upon their county by the cattle barons who are trying to drive the smaller stockmen off the range."10

I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.

there was a remarkably strong connection between knowledge about the euthanasia program and knowledge about the mass murder of Jews.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was Johnson's vehicle for expanding the Southern economy and making it, as he hoped, one of the more prosperous regions of the country.

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

It's always awkward when someone doesn't realize you're joking and devotes thought time to what you've said. Double that when the person is wearing tinfoil.

Albert Ellingham said knowledge was his religion and libraries were his church, so he built a church.

Probably some period thing. I go completely mental too. Period fever. It's the worst. This effectively killed all conversation for a while. ...Fixed that, she said. You told him I had period fever , I replied. There's no such thing as period fever. No such thing as ghosts either. No, there is really no such thing as period fever. There's a difference between being a guy and being an idiot .

A pause while my mother made high-pitched sisterly devotions of gratitude.

What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals. Holy crap, I said, when she set them on the desk. You're like a fish. Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see. I saw.

His voice was deep and smooth and rich, like what gravy might sound like if gravy could talk.

If they bulge in the brain or anywhere else of interest, the wallet is a good alternate location. And I should know.

It's everyone's dream... Come to Ellingham Academy, move a ramp out of a hole in the dark. - Nate

His face shining with the kind of radiance usually associated with religious epiphany.

Again, I noticed and again, I didn't really care. But he did make more of an impact than the snow.

But I was fuelled by the power of confusion and panic, which, like I said is always ready and waiting to get to work.

Charlotte had been beaten over the head with a lamp by an invisible man. I was prepared to give her a pass.

A scholastic-career-ending amount. A definitely arrestable, criminal record amount.

If you think I can stop Peter and Yash on their quest for comedy glory," Sebastian said to her, "you have more faith in me than I deserve