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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 11:30 AM
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Greatest Presidential Quotes in American History
Edited on Tue Jul-25-06 12:28 PM by jackstraw45

"Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself" - FDR


"Ask not what your country can do you. Ask what you can do for your country!" - JFK


"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." - Lincoln


"Russia's big and so is China." - *Bush
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 11:33 AM
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1. what LBJ said about Ho Chi Minh and his...
....on second thought, never mind
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 11:40 AM
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3. LBJ talking about his "bunghole"
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/lbj_haggar.html

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LBJ: Now the pockets, when you sit down, everything falls out, your money, your knife, everything, so I need at least another inch in the pockets. And another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight, so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost, these are the best I've had anywhere in the United States,

JH: Fine

LBJ: But, uh when I gain a little weight they cut me under there. So, leave me , you never do have much of margin there. See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.

JH: Right

audio
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 02:02 PM
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13. Another LBJ masterpiece
"I've got Hubert's pecker in my pocket."

Talking about his VP.

Another time he exposed himself to some Japanese reporters in a Japanese public restroom noting to them that they probably didn't see any that size where they come from.

He was quite the quotable guy.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 02:04 PM
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14. He also gave a brilliant speech on Voting Rights to a Joint
Session of Congress which concluded with him raising his arms and bellowing "We Shall Overcome."
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Cocoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 11:35 AM
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2. Bush's presidential library is going to be a hoot
people will come from all over the world to laugh their asses off. :rofl:
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 11:55 AM
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5. How much would you pay to see one Mad Magazine on a toilet rack?
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Outlier Donating Member (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 11:43 AM
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4. eisenhower
How about what Ike said about the military industrial complex, seems to apply today. In fact he got us out of Korea 6 months after taking office. So apparently cutting and running worked then. Very underrated president. Hell of a general.
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Aviation Pro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:20 PM
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6. Look at the demeanor of the first three....
...then look at Asshole, he looks like the obnoxious, drunken lout at the corner bar (who will later get the shit kicked out of him by someone who is sick of his bullshit).
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:22 PM
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7. Speak softy and carry a big stick
Theodore Roosevelt's favorite proverb ...

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The Sushi Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:25 PM
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8. God told me to be President

The Anti-Christ
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CountAllVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:25 PM
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9. re: JFK quote
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. (correction)

:kick:
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:29 PM
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11. Whoops..thanks.
Had a Dumbya moment there.
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rustydog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 12:26 PM
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10. "Pootie Poot told me the chinese guy who leads that foreign
country with all the chinese people, I forget it's name right now, anyway, Pootie says it takes over eight hours for him to fly to that country named after the China we eat off of...(what the fuck is that country's NAME???)
Anyway, Russia is a BIG country..Oh YEA, CHINA! China is a big country too!"

"Now, maybe y'all didnt knowed it, but if it takes over 8 hours to fly home, you live in a big country."

I'm not wearing my underwear, I'm definitely not wearing my underwear...I'm a good president."
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 01:02 PM
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12. I forgot who said this one "It's better to have a bird in the hand,
than two in the bush, but it's far better to have two in the Bush than have a Bush anywhere near the White House or anything flammable for that matter".
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