Deep down I know—I simply know—that the American people love me. After all that I’ve done for them and given to them, how can they help but love me? And I know that it is only a very small percentage that have given up, who have lost faith.

Who said it? (Answer after the jump.)

A) George W. Bush
B) Hillary Clinton
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Britney Spears

Answer: Lyndon Johnson. The quote, in which I’ve somewhat unfairly swapped present tenses for past, appears in Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Johnson and is cited by William Gaddis in “The Rush for Second Place.” Johnson was talking about Vietnam.