Lyndon Johnson actually said...

To be poor is to be without an advocate-in dealing with a landlord, a creditor, or a government bureaucrat.

Special Message to the Congress: America's Unfinished Business, Urban and Rural Poverty

03/13/1967

More Lyndon Johnson Quotes

We have no such proposals under consideration, I say at this time.

Nothing of that type is imminent at this moment.

And we will continue to attempt to prevail upon both labor and business, or business and labor, to bear in mind that when the increased cost...

Retardation may afflict a child not only before he is born, but afterwards.