American people Quote by Charlton Heston

The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach…

— Helen Thomas

Compared with other recent presidents whose stumbles and failures have assaulted the national self-esteem, memories of Kennedy continue to give the country faith that…

— Robert Dallek

Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found…

— Robert Dallek

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but…

— Harry S. Truman

No President has ever enjoyed himself as much as I?

— Theodore Roosevelt

The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear that, as…

— Clint Hill

Historians sometimes view presidents very differently from the way the public did at the time. Sometimes they don't.

— Michael Beschloss

Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth…

— Edward Kennedy

Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

— Jill Lepore

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.

— Jack Schlossberg

For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country…

— Robert Dallek

The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and tragic and…

— Richard Belzer