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What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, The College Star (Southwest Texas State), June 19, 1929
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, press conference, Jul. 28, 1965
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, quoted in Hillary Rodham Clinton's Living History
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