I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Ask not what your country can do for you,but ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget…As the national income grows, the federal… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Whatever the political affiliation of our next President, whatever his views may be on all the issues and problems that rush in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some of my colleagues who are criticized today for lack of forthright principles-or who are looked upon with scorn as compromising "politicians"-are… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "hold office"; every one of us is in a position… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute; where no Catholic prelate would tell the President… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan… I'm the responsible officer of the Government. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
