Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph P. Kennedy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American diplomat Joseph P. Kennedy.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Joseph Patrick Kennedy was an American businessman, investor, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was the patriarch of the Irish-American Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy.

He's a great kid. He hates the same way I do.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry. — © Joseph P. Kennedy
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.
I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.
Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Jack doesn't belong anymore to just a family. He belongs to the country.
More men die of jealousy than of cancer.
If there's anything I'd hate as a son-in-law, it's an actor; and if there's anything I think I'd hate worse than an actor as a son-in-law, it's an English actor.
He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.
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