An unfolding technology has increased our economic strength and added to the convenience of our lives. But that same technology-we know now-carries danger with it. From the great smoke stacks of industry and from the exhausts of motors and machines, 130 million tons of soot, carbon and grime settle over the people and shroud the Nation's cities each year. From towns, factories, and stockyards, wastes pollute our rivers and streams, endangering the waters we drink and use.
Lyndon B. JohnsonCurtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.
Lyndon B. Johnson