Top 100 Kennedy John Quotes

#1. John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Kennedy John Quotes #2421
#2. First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #11370
#3. When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #12459
#4. Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #14503
#5. My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Kennedy John Quotes #16187
#6. Will you please stop screeching like a fishmonger and run along? Don't you have a bottle of muscatel baking in the oven?

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #16660
#7. The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #22573
#8. If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #23983
#9. This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #26940
#10. We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.

Cynthia McKinney

Kennedy John Quotes #27145
#11. Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #29940
#12. Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #30563
#13. Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted, his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.

Craig Kilborn

Kennedy John Quotes #31458
#14. When Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 as her father's rightful heir, she laid upon him the mantle of Camelot and the enduring mystique of John F. Kennedy, who, according to polls, continues to be America's most beloved president.

Kitty Kelley

Kennedy John Quotes #32576
#15. There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #36356
#16. Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies
and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America
in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #37579
#17. Only in winter can you tell which trees are truly green. Only when the winds of adversity blow can you tell whether an individual or a country has steadfastness.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #38031
#18. For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #39125
#19. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #40746
#20. The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy ... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

Mike Pence

Kennedy John Quotes #45406
#21. Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #51382
#22. Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #54452
#23. We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #58481
#24. I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #58825
#25. Compromise does not mean cowardice.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #60917
#26. I would very much like to know what the Founding Fathers would say if they could see these children being debauched to further the cause of Clearasil. However, I always suspected that democracy would come to this.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #63187
#27. The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #66364
#28. I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #67541
#29. Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #67994
#30. We do not want an official state church. If ninety-nine percent of the population were Catholics, I would still be opposed to it. I do not want civil power combined with religious power. I want to make it clear that I am committed as a matter of deep personal conviction to separation.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #69351
#31. What is it, Gus? A problem? Are you having a problem? That's one of your problems. You never tell me your problems.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #71175
#32. Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #71464
#33. At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #72179
#34. If not us, who? If not now, when?

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #74044
#35. Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.
[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #75987
#36. I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #76132
#37. Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
[Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #77226
#38. The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.

John Waters

Kennedy John Quotes #78554
#39. I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #79617
#40. All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #81114
#41. Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #86152
#42. You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #89802
#43. If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #90429
#44. Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #91869
#45. 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

Kennedy John Quotes #106960
#46. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #107182
#47. We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #107295
#48. Everything changes but change itself.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #108657
#49. Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #109599
#50. When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #109785
#51. Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #118415
#52. Courage
judgment
integrity
dedication
these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State ... And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #120658
#53. I don't drive. Will you kindly go away? I am waiting for my mother.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #128681
#54. We are confronted primarily with a moral issue ... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #131453
#55. IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE EXISTENCE OF THIS VEHICLE ("THE OBJECT") UNTIL YOU ARE .5 MILES FROM THE SECURITY PERIMETER OF JOHN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. BY READING THIS SIGN YOU HAVE DENIED EXISTENCE OF THE OBJECT AND IMPLIED CONSENT.

Gary Shteyngart

Kennedy John Quotes #134172
#56. I'm an idealist without illusions.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #136558
#57. I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all of us. He knew he was a failure at everything he tried, frustrated, with a very sad life, but he was a Marxist.

John Sherman Cooper

Kennedy John Quotes #139517
#58. Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #141472
#59. The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #145640
#60. In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #146176
#61. The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #146713
#62. History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #152678
#63. If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #154361
#64. No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #156337
#65. National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #157587
#66. Show me a man with a great golf game, and I'll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #159207
#67. Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #159774
#68. On the prow of the wagon, in an attempt to attract business among the Quarterites, Ignatius taped a sheet of Big Chief paper on which he had printed in crayon: TWELVE INCHES (12) OF PARADISE. So far no one had responded to its message.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #162454
#69. There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan ... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #165743
#70. It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead ...

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #179939
#71. Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #194609
#72. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #195609
#73. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #195735
#74. 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

Kennedy John Quotes #198648
#75. I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy.

Nicolas Maduro

Kennedy John Quotes #198714
#76. Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #200708
#77. I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #202214
#78. John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.

Robert Dallek

Kennedy John Quotes #202561
#79. President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.

Malcolm Kilduff

Kennedy John Quotes #212651
#80. All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #213259
#81. Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #215009
#82. Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #215528
#83. Remember I'm from Dauphine Street. We useta put the kitchen chairs out on the banquette and set there till midnight sometimes waiting for the house to cool off. And the things the people down here say! Lord.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #218843
#84. In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #221676
#85. We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #223040
#86. Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #225174
#87. Mr. Gonzalez watched Mr. Zalatimo probing his long index finger high into one of his nostrils. What would this one do? His feet tingled with fear.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #226068
#88. I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

John Irving

Kennedy John Quotes #228468
#89. The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #228660
#90. For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood Americans of us all.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #233676
#91. I want that Easter Ham. Where's my Thanksgiving Turkey? Miss Trixie snarled

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #237901
#92. Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #242144
#93. Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #245159
#94. I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #245218
#95. Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #245455
#96. And that John F. Kennedy uttered the first variation of "ask not what your country can do for you" in Detroit on Labor Day in 1960. So Detroit was really central to Democratic politics United States. Every Democratic candidate would start their fall campaigns in Cadillac Square.

David Maraniss

Kennedy John Quotes #245591
#97. Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, ... We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history or the world - or make it the last.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #246640
#98. My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #247531
#99. I love her deeply and have done everything for her. I've no feeling of letting her down because I've put her foremost in everything.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy John Quotes #249783
#100. You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

John Kennedy Toole

Kennedy John Quotes #252611

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