Kennedy Quotes

342 Kennedy quotes by 254 unique authors

At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes. — Charlie Pierce
Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that… — James Hillman
Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who… — Monica Crowley
The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink… — Carine Roitfeld
A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel… — Mario Testino
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of… — Jeffrey Toobin
The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can… — Donald E. Graham
I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry. — Robert Osborne
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill. — Jim McGovern
For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a… — Noah Feldman
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, opposition to state terror and aggression and torture and so on was zero. That was a horrible time:… — Noam Chomsky
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage. — Mark Shriver
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual… — Virginia Postrel
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. — Robert Dallek
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. — Robert Dallek
Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy. — Robert Dallek
I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don… — Robert Dallek
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has… — Robert Dallek
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency.… — Robert Dallek
When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of… — Robert Dallek
Every year since 1990, the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year, Kennedy comes out… — Robert Dallek
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis. — Robert Dallek
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union. — Robert Dallek
From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the… — Robert Dallek

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