President Kennedy Quotes
43 President Kennedy quotes by 40 unique authors
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When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they…
— Russell Baker
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Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who…
— Edward Kennedy
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Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"…
— Carl Sagan
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People don't realise what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy - nobody like him. Like The Beatles, there will never be anything like…
— Muhammad Ali
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It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.
— Peter O'Toole
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President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
— David Powers
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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
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If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family to…
— Nancy Gibbs
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President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day…
— Rosa DeLauro
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As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond…
— Charles Bolden
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You [President Kennedy] have made some pretty strong statements about their being defensive and that we would take action against offensive weapons. I think that…
— Curtis LeMay
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Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
— David Kay
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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.
— Pierre Salinger
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While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and…
— Rob Portman
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President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
— Pierre Salinger
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Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody…
— Barack Obama
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The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the…
— Julie London
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President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He…
— Kevin Costner
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Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful…
— Marian Wright Edelman
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You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev…
— Alexander Haig
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