President Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes in Selma (2014)

President Lyndon B. Johnson: Are you trying to shit me, George Wallace? Are you trying to fuck over your president?

President Lyndon B. Johnson: [Speaking to George Wallace] I'll be damned to let history put me in the same place as the likes of you.

President Lyndon B. Johnson: There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem.

Martin Luther King Jr.: We need your involvement here, Mr. President. We deserve your help as citizens of this country. Citizens under attack.

President Lyndon B. Johnson: Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. You're an activist. I'm a politician. You got one big issue. I got a hundred and one.

President Lyndon B. Johnson: Either King stops or Wallace stops or I'll stop them both!

President Lyndon B. Johnson: And we shall overcome.

President Lyndon B. Johnson: We shouldn't even be thinking about 1965, we should be thinking about 1985.

President Lyndon B. Johnson: But when you have people coming inside the White House, inside the White House, on a tour, they just sat down, Martin, sat down in the main corridor and started singing and shouting, well, I won't have it!

Gov. George Wallace: Mr. President, malcontents are disrupting Alabama and it's your responsibility to stop them.

President Lyndon B. Johnson: They're protesting about the right to vote and the way they're treated in your state, so that's your problem and it's your responsibility and it's on your watch.