“Not worth a bucket of warm spit.”

— John Nance Garner

Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency, widely attributed to Garner as early as 1964 http://books.google.com/books?id=q4zpAAAAMAAJ. The quote is sometimes given as using "piss" instead of "spit."

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American politician 1868–1967

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