Lyndon Johnson actually said...

You will renew the most solemn sacrament of democracy--the consent of the governed from which the just powers of government derive.

For Houston, it has been good.

I am mighty happy that during that period when the hotheads were around and when people were yelling all kinds of advice, that the coolest, ...

I am going to do it because I think that he has loyally and effectively worked for the Democratic program for all the people, and I want to ...