President kennedy Quote by Robert A. Caro

“Perhaps the book’s greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.”

— Theodore H. White

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would…

— Thomas Mallon

His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and…

— Jack Newfield

“Up to then there had been something of a gentleman’s agreement among those who might be called The Good Journalists of Washington that the…

— David Halberstam

“Kennedy entered, waving to the standing audience, an elderly gentleman in an Alpine hat and lederhosen struck up “Hail to the Chief ” on…

— Stephen King

“So intense was Kennedy’s concentration that she hadn’t”

— Vince Flynn

It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy, a man unprepared for introspection, think for the first time in his life, what he wanted to…

— Jack Newfield

I was always biting the hand that fed me. It was compulsive. Kennedy was very good to me, and I attacked him as soon…

— Mort Sahl

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told…

— Emilio Estevez

“President Kennedy’s eloquence was designed to make men think; President Johnson’s hammer blows are designed to make men act.”

— Robert A. Caro

A deep, black grief gripped Robert Kennedy in the months following his brother's assassination. He lost weight, fell into melancholy silences, wore his brother's…

— Thurston Clarke

“Lydon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who had been like family…

— Nancy Gibbs