Top 756 Kennedy Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

We took care of Kennedy

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.

A lot of people have done things over the years and made fun of people in one way or another. When I was a kid, Vaughn Meader used to do John F. Kennedy. I don't know if that makes John F. Kennedy less credible. He would do the voice, he'd have some silly situations or whatever. I don't know if it made him less presidential because of it.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

I actually knew Adlai Stevenson and Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.

We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.

There was no quality Robert Kennedy admired more than courage.

I was born outside Kennedy Space Center.

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.

It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

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!

How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

When I was a West Virginia lad of 17, I met a Massachusetts lad of 42 by the name of John F. Kennedy. At the time, I was in a bright orange suit that I had just purchased to wear to the 1960 National Science Fair, where I hoped my home-built rockets would win a medal. Kennedy was in West Virginia trying to win the state's presidential primary.

I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'

Ted Kennedy was a giant - no doubt about it.

At the beginning of his administration, Reagan tried set the basis for American military intervention in El Salvador - which is about what Kennedy did when he came into office in regard to Vietnam. Well, when Kennedy tried it in Vietnam, it just worked like a dream. Virtually nobody opposed American bombing of South Vietnam in 1962. It was not an issue. But when Reagan began to talk of involving American forces in El Salvador there was a huge popular uproar. And he had to choose a much more indirect way of supporting the collection of gangsters in power there. He had to back off.

I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.

What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.

The result of being a Kennedy is that I have extraordinary opportunities that I wouldn't otherwise have.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

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

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

The fact that a TV star can become president should be old news since [Ronald] Reagan, and old news since the Nixon-Kennedy debates - which the famous story, whether or not you agree, is that if you listened on the radio, Nixon won; if you listened on TV, Kennedy won.

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente with the Soviet Union, a new feeling for peace, a seeking out of a new ally with the Soviet Union - the end of the Cold War, as Kennedy called it in his American University speech.

If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed....this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!

Joe Kennedy was a massive figure on all kinds of levels.

I ain't no Kennedy, I ain't no Diddy Combs, I ain't no Jay Z, I ain't got it like them.

We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.

The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

When Justice White retired, he gave me the chance to work for Justice Kennedy, as well. Justice Kennedy was incredibly welcoming and gracious, and like Justice White, he taught me so much. I am forever grateful. And if you've ever met Judge David Sentelle, you'll know just how lucky I was to land a clerkship with him right out of school.

I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in what is ostensibly a democracy. Sarcasm - come on in. People say Bill, quit talking about Kennedy man. It was a long time ago, just let it go, alright? It's a long time ago, just forget it. I'm like, alright, then don't bring up Jesus to me. As long as we're talking shelf life here.

Eisenhower was quite supportive of Kennedy and Johnson in terms of foreign policy.

I've learned to appreciate the thinking of John Kennedy.

Ted Kennedy was not terribly effective when he first became a senator.