Kennedy Quotes

Any woman who still thinks marriage is a fifty-fifty proposition is only proving that she doesn't understand either men or percentages.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

... anybody with the brains and energy to become a teacher ought to want to become something better.

I'd rather you didn't talk, but it's up to you.

I never, absolutely never, keep people waiting.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.

The costs savings was a big win, but now we also have a schedule of events and are clearly aware of when our contracts begin and end...we are much more strategic about how we source now.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.

Each increase of tension has produced an increase of arms; each increase of arms has produced an increase of tension.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Be aware of danger-but recognize the opportunity

If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.

Those [presidents] who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.

The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

Life isn't fair. In never was and never will be.

There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

Fail miserably, achieve greatly!

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman.

I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office.

Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

The best way to progress is the path of freedom.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.

You're in there with me. Personally.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure.

If you face a man's job, find a woman!

The mere absence of war is not peace.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

If we are to go only halfway or reduce our sights in the face of difficulty... it would be better to not go at all.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.

The credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement.

There is, in addition to a courage with which men die; a courage by which men must live.

As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy

Every dollar released from taxation that is spared or invested will help create a new job and a new salary.

There is no other airport in the world which serves so many people and so many airplanes. This is an extraordinary airport. . . it could be classed as one of the wonders of the modern world.

Let us make it clear that we will never turn our backs on our steadfast friends in Israel, whose adherence to the democratic way must be admired by all friends of freedom.