Beat Quote by Mario Cuomo

When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that…

— Rick Tumlinson

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.

— Mitt Romney

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent…

— Thomas Friedman

Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of…

— Wally Schirra

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was…

— Buzz Aldrin

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…

— Charles Bolden

I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.

— John Catsimatidis

President John F. Kennedy demonstrated the value of presidential credibility at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, when he sent emissaries to America's…

— Antony Blinken

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did…

— Richard Dreyfuss

Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But…

— Buzz Aldrin

Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in…

— John F. Kennedy