Kennedy Quotes

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

My health is good and it's up to me to keep it that way.

The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.

Actually, I think it's quite sensible not to take yourself too seriously.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

I think there's a sense of power women don't get till we're older when we say, 'This is the line, and you're not stepping over it.

As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.

Rock and roll has had a powerful anti-Christian subtheme for decades now.

Growing up, being a rapper wasn't my goal, but it became my destination.

This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?

I've been known to write on the Underground in London and on the subway in New York. I have two or three cafes in Paris that I go into. I find a corner with a little shade, and I can work.

From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient individuals.

We don't like admitting this, but it is a key component of human existence: the fact that life has the potential for things both wondrous and horrific.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves.

The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio.

I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court.

The demand of our people in 1980 is not for smaller government or bigger government but for better government.

Separation of church and state cannot mean an absolute separation between moral principles and political power.

I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

Floating screw - that's what people used to call me.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

I hope for an America where neither fundamentalist nor humanist will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

That is a pretty big deal from a commitment standpoint.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

It is a moral issue how we are going to treat workers. On these issues, these are moral issues, principled issues, where there aren't compromises.

Judges are appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. And it is our duty to ask questions on great issues that matter to the American people and to speak for them.

Will a nominee embrace and uphold the essential meaning of the four words inscribed above the entrance of the Supreme Court building: Equal justice under law?

Justice Lewis Powell spoke for all of us when he said: Equal justice under law is perhaps the most inspiring idea of our society. It is one of the ends for which our entire legal system exists.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

There are times when silence is the most sacred of responses.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.