Addresses Quote by Joe Klein

A great presidential address - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, Truman's Farewell Address, Kennedy's Inaugural Address - has the power to inspire.

— Steve Rushin

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

— Richard Holbrooke

The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing. Ronald Reagan and George Bush. That was…

— Don Rickles

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about…

— Tim Ryan

It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that…

— Chris Matthews

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's…

— Robert Dallek

I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until…

— Michael Moore

I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not…

— Gerald R. Ford

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration…

— Christine Pelosi

I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White…

— Gloria Steinem

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

— Birch Bayh

I was very political when JFK ran.

— Bob Newhart