“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”

—  Lyndon B. Johnson

Private comment, as quoted in Name-Dropping (1999) by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 149.

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American politician, 36th president of the United States (i… 1908–1973

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