Lyndon B Johnson Quotes in Jackie (2016)

Bobby Kennedy: [right after Lee Harvey Oswald's murder on TV] You'll not speak a word of this! Understood? I'll tell Jackie when the time is right. Sit down.

Lyndon B Johnson: Excuse me?

Bobby Kennedy: Sit down.

Lyndon B. Johnson: [Putting medal on Forrest] America owes you a debt of gratitude, son. Now I understand you were wounded. Where were you hit?

Forrest Gump: In the buttocks.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Oh that must be a sight.

[Whispering to Forrest]

Lyndon B. Johnson: I'd like to see that.

[Forrest shows him; Johnson walks away embarrassed]

Lyndon B. Johnson: God damn, son.

White House Man: We have to control the intelligence from Saigon.

Lyndon B. Johnson: Well don't let McNamara start sticking his damn nose in this thing! Every time he goes over to Saigon on some fuckin' fact-finding mission, he comes back and just scares the shit out of the President! Now I want Max Taylor on him night and day, like a fly on shit. Now you control McNamara, and you control Kennedy.

Lyndon B. Johnson: [to the Chiefs of Staff in the White House] Just get me the election; I'll give you your damn war.

Lyndon B. Johnson: You just get me elected, and I'll give you your damned war.