American Quote by Clint Hill

Kennedy believed in religious liberty and the separation of church and state. He did not believe in the right of elected officials to impose…

— Jack Schlossberg

So, in Kennedy's case, he was a Catholic. And people thought after the Al Smith election and so forth that a Catholic couldn't win…

— Geoffrey Cowan

“A second key decision by Kennedy concerned his Catholicism, which led many Protestants, including Norman Vincent Peale, to question whether he ought to be…

— James T. Patterson

It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a…

— Roger Ebert

George W. Bush is the first Catholic president of the United States.

— Rick Santorum

We elected a President, not a Pope.

— Barbra Streisand

I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is…

— Doug Wead

Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a vote for…

— Jack Schlossberg

“Fun fact: Kennedy was the first catholic president. Obama was the first black president. Trump is the first mentally ill president.”

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

— Jack Schlossberg

I think I would always tell school kids that, you know, they'd say, "When did you get interested in politics?" I said, "Just very…

— Mike Pence

But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured -…

— John F. Kennedy