John Kennedy Quotes

• I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

  John Irving

  Country, Thinking, Hopeful

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• Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

  Joe Biden

  Six Months, World, Tests

  "FOX News Watch" with Jon Scott, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2008.

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• We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Men, Views

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.108, Beacon Press

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• The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.

  Jim Garrison

  New Orleans, Citizens, Conspiracy

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• My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Book, Long, Nightmare

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• By every measure, John Kennedy's sex life was compulsive and reckless. At one level, it had clear public consequences. Knowledge of Kennedy's behavior gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover absolute job security, as well as the potential power to derail Kennedy's re-election had he survived assassination.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Jobs, Sex, Directors

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• If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Harry Truman, Vision, Dwight Eisenhower

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• My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

  John Barrasso

  Country, Dad, Republican

  "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.

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• To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not something to be gauged in a poll or located in a focus group. No adviser can spin it. No historian can backdate it. For, in the age old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Focus, Age, Approval

  Remarks by President Gerald R. Ford on Receiving the 2001 Profile in Courage Award, www.jfklibrary.org. May 21, 2001.

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• John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  People, Way, Should

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• Did you ever stop to thnk about all the people we kill? They're always people who tell us to live together in harmony and try to love one another: Jesus, Ghandi, Lincoln, John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, John Lennon. They all said: 'Try to live together peacefully.' BAM! Right in the f--in head! Aparently we're not ready for that!

  George Carlin

  Jesus, Kings, Hate

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• I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

  Jesse Ventura

  Believe, I Believe, Harvey

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• Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

  Joe Klein

  Senior, Men, Balance

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• I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Jealous, Moon, Men

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• Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents.

  George Will

  Party, Two, Office

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• There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Book, Rights, White

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• I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].

  Jim McDermott

  Military, Ideas, Iraq

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• Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon -but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx -the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Greatness, Looks

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• When John Kennedy attempted to take the government back from the back from the robber barons, he was brutally murdered. The message to future US president and leaders across the world was clear: do as you're told, or die. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the last true president of the United States. And until the globalists are removed from power, we will never have another real one.

  Alex Jones

  Change, Real, Power

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• I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy, but I was not with him in Dallas, Texas, on November 21, 1963.

  Pierre Salinger

  Texas, Cities, America

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• Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.

  Christopher Judge

  Sports, Kings, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

  Sally Kirkland

  Thinking, Cases

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

  Birch Bayh

  Inspiration, Thinking, Election

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• Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy

  Canibus

  Enemy, Brain, Matter

  Song: Boyz 2 Men

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• You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

  Michael Beschloss

  Hard Times, Years, Presidential

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