Administration Quote by Roger Ebert

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

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

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

I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.

— Tracy Chapman

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

— Rick Santorum

“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

When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic…

— Penn Jillette

In fact, that's a great thing about America and even about being Catholic, we have plenty of opinions.

— Tim Kaine

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

— 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

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

— Oliver Markus Malloy

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