Jack Kennedy Quotes

#1. Jack Kennedy could have been a movie star himself. He had the charisma, the charm, that come-hither quality that can never be duplicated. Is it any wonder he got elected president?

Marilyn Monroe

#2. When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

James Ellroy

#3. Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.

Pete Sessions

#4. The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists.

Ben Bradlee

#5. Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

Sally Bedell Smith

#6. When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

Gene Tierney

#7. Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

Lloyd Bentsen

#8. Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.

Gore Vidal

#9. I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

D. A. Pennebaker

#10. I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946. We were both war heroes, and both of us had just been elected to Congress.

Norman Mailer

#11. I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility.

David Brooks

#12. Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

Hedy Lamarr

#13. I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

Rob Lowe

#14. I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

Phil Hartman

#15. For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.

David Pietrusza

#16. I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.'

Gloria Steinem

#17. Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

Robert Novak

#18. Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Mike Wallace

#19. Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

Mike Wallace

#20. I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

Gene Tierney

#21. It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

Jim Garrison

#22. I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

Dan Quayle

#23. I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

Jackie Kennedy

#24. His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

Jack Newfield

#25. countdown for Apollo 12 in 1969. Marcia Dunn | 381 words Jack King, a NASA public affairs official who became the voice of the Apollo moon shots, died June 11 at a hospice center near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. He was 84

Anonymous

#26. I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.

Jack McDevitt

#27. I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Robert Kennedy

#28. Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.

Joseph P. Kennedy

#29. All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.

Jack Newfield

#30. When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, and he's with Jack and a lot of my brothers and sisters and my parents.' So it made it very easy to get through the day thinking he was OK.

Ethel Kennedy

#31. President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act.

Robert A. Caro

#32. But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled, unintelligent demagogue.

Jack Newfield

#33. I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

Jack Canfield

#34. When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy

Jack Ruby

#35. Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

Jackie Kennedy

#36. Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

Jack Newfield

#37. Embrace Change Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. JOHN F. KENNEDY Thirty-fifth president of the United States

Jack Canfield

#38. It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to do, and what he stood for.

Jack Newfield

#39. Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

David Pietrusza