Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we… — 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
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
Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a… — 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
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
Peaceful circulation has been interupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks. For a city or a people to be truly free, they… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your… — 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 fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the… — 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 of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
“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
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — 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 Image
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 Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be… — 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 Image
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
