Quotes About Kennedys

#1. Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

Jello Biafra

#2. I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Muhammad Ali

#3. The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?

Lorna Luft

#4. Nixon's avowedly 'square' White House was, in fact, less cheesy than Clinton's Lite FM programming and more confident than the Kennedys' culturally craven collect-the-set approach.

Mark Steyn

#5. The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, it really wasn't worth it. In my family, you never knew when dinner was going to be. It could be at 7, or it could be at 10.

Ethel Kennedy

#6. Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Thom Yorke

#7. No matter what I do, my songs come out in a certain style, and if that sounds like Dead Kennedys, then there's probably a reason for it. Don't forget, I wrote most of those songs, music and lyrics.

Jello Biafra

#8. Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.

Letitia Baldrige

#9. The American conscience died with the Kennedys.

Frank Miller

#10. They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?

John Swartzwelder

#11. I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

Eli Roth

#12. The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America's real motive in Iraq? Three drinks. The three-drink answers can never contain the truth. The

William Gibson

#13. How many people saw Arnold's speech last night? I haven't seen that many Kennedys in one place since their last trial.

David Letterman

#14. I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

Pamela Anderson

#15. What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Jello Biafra

#16. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, the Kennedys - there is always a pattern where a piece of information is destroyed, in which a witness is killed. It's so predictable, you can go back and look up old cases.

Mae Brussell

#17. But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

Jimmy Hoffa

#18. The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.

Mark Fuhrman

#19. I was an 18-year-old kid, and I was in the heart of things in Washington. My interest in American politics and, particularly, the Kennedys, began then.

Nigel Hamilton

#20. The Kennedys tried to avoid using the big U-shaped table, but when they couldn't, they had several tricks - including keeping the flowers simple - to keep it from appearing overly stiff and formal.

Letitia Baldrige

#21. I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.

Christopher Hitchens

#22. In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble myself with the Kennedys. Not because of my portrait of JFK - which was highly laudatory - but because I had described his parents, Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, in less-than-flattering terms.

Nigel Hamilton

#23. The Kennedys are our royals.

Rob Lowe

#24. I just stood there, like a grain of sand amongst a
million others on a beach.

Jeff Erno

#25. [On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.

Jeane Dixon

#26. California is the most reactionary state in America. Fascist sentiments are very strong here.

Ilya Ilf

#27. If you see an injustice, and don't move to right it when you have a chance, history won't forget that, either.

Diane Duane

#28. Mosca sniffed at perfection. Perfection had no pulse and no heart.

Frances Hardinge

#29. Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take "no" as an answer to some questions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#30. It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

Peter O'Toole

#31. Why do you wake up in the morning?

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe