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Date Posted: 23:02:35 02/14/05 Mon
In reply to:
Joanna
's message, "JFK wit" on 22:46:14 02/14/05 Mon
Here is a whole slew of quotes I found from JFK, enjoy!
A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end ... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice. (address to the Ministerial Association of Greater Houston, Sept 12, 1960)
I do not think it entirely inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqeline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. (While saying goodbye to his hosts after Jacqueline had charmed all of France including De Gaulle with her fluent French on their visit to France.)
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
I got where I am by not trusting experts. But this time I put all my faith in the experts and look what happened. (To Ted Sorensen, after the Bay of Pigs fiasco)
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
I know there are some Republicans and some Democrats who say that they have now developed a wonderful arrangement in Washington. The congress is Democratic and the President is Republican and nothing happens, and isn't it wonderful?
I leaned across the asparagus and asked her for a date.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (at a dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, the White House, April 29, 1962)
I'm not going to appoint ambassadors on the basis of campaign contributions. (In a subsequent speech) Ever since I said that, I haven't gotten a single cent from my father.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat. (answering a little boy on how he became a war hero)
Just think what my margin might have been if I had never left home at all. (commenting on the fact that he had campaigned hard in Alaska and lost but won Hawaii handily without visiting it)
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in any form. (To a friend who was telling him that he could be vice-presidential candidate in 1960)
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
Look at that, I have a total fiasco and my poll ratings go up. What am I going to do to get them up further?
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
Mr. Nixon, like the rest of us, has had his problems in this campaign. At one point even the Wall Street Journal was criticizing his tactics. That is like the Osservatore Romano criticizing the Pope.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.''
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
This nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it. (at the dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health, Center, San Antonio, Texas, Nov 21, 1963)
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
When we (The Democrats) got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
You don't fire God. (about his reluctance in replacing Herbert Hoover as Director of the FBI)
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