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President Kennedy Quotes & Sayings

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If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes? — Robert Kennedy

I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for, President Truman worked for, and President Kennedy died for. — Lyndon B. Johnson

President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. — Jacqueline Novogratz

When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy — Jack Ruby

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards. — Colin Powell

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably. — Clint Hill

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. — Arlen Specter

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. — Pierre Salinger

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

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

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history. — Robert Dallek

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had. — David Powers

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants. — Edward Kennedy

President Kennedy stocked up on Cuban Cigars just before signing the embargo. — Hank Bracker

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. — Pierre Salinger

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic. — John F. Kennedy

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot. — Jackie Kennedy

Don't pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. — JFK

Mr. Kennedy had become disenchanted with the Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Diem distrusted Kennedy. — Jim Bishop

I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnson under any foreseeable circumstances. — Robert Kennedy

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination. — Peter O'Toole

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. — Edward Kennedy

I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard. — Jack Canfield

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow? — Jackie Kennedy

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks. — Joseph P. Kennedy

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. — John F. Kennedy

A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's "Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn." I want to deny that! — John F. Kennedy

Perhaps the book's greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor. — Theodore H. White

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!' — John Catsimatidis

President Kennedy's eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson's hammer blows are designed to make men act. — Robert A. Caro

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility. — Caroline Kennedy

President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating. — Marilyn Monroe

Mr. Kennedy, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you!" These were the last words President John F. Kennedy would ever hear. Leslie — Allen Childs

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there. — Mitt Romney

I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot. — Neil Warnock

Somebody had fired a shot at the President, and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered. — Clint Hill

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education. — Buzz Aldrin

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy. — John Irving

Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president. — John Catsimatidis