Not worth a bucket of warm spit.

 

Not worth a bucket of warm spit.
--
Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency, widely attributed to Garner as early as 1964. The quote is sometimes given as using "piss" instead of "spit."

 

John Nance Garner

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