Kennedy Quotes

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

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

In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

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.

When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

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

Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

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.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.

I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It's more than healthy; it's fun.

We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors.

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)

No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

When things don't go well they like to blame presidents; and that's something that presidents are paid for.

The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.

There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.

Every president has taken comfort and courage when told...that the Lord "will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed."

Wherever there is smoke there is a good smoke machine.

Success has many fathers.

It is no contradiction - the most important single thing we can do to stimulate investment in today's economy is to raise consumption by major reduction ofindividualincometaxrates.

An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

A life of complete leisure is the hardest work of all.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Bullfight critics row on row Fill the enormous Plaza de toros But only one is there who knows And he is the one who fights the bull.

There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?

The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.