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Lyndon B. Johnson
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Irving R. Kaufman
To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
Irving R. Kaufman
The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
Irving R. Kaufman
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Edward Kennedy
Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Jackie Kennedy
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
John F. Kennedy
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
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