#mm

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#city #due #fact #immensely #just

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

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#damn #generation #member #our #our generation

I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#better place #community #i #like #live

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation. ↗

— Ethel Rosenberg

#appears #beyond #comment #detail #difficult

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#committee #determined #flame #good #knowledgeable

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#common #common faith #democratic #faith #freedom

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#had #i #know #name #poverty

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#communication #confidence #error #establish #i

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do. ↗

— Randy Johnson

#better #carlton #conversation #days #everyone

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#commit #feel #felt #i #life