Originally posted by plawrence:
My favorite LBJ quote - altho I forget who he was talking about. Bobby Baker, maybe? - was
"I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in."
I seem to remember that Johnson was talking about J. Edgar Hoover. The quote idea came from keeping Hoover "on the team" so to speak. Its related to Vito Corleone's, "Keep your friends close but your enemies closer".
