Kennedy Quotes
-
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
-
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
-
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
-
In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.
-
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
-
I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.
-
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
-
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 in the United States. But when he was able to win in West Virginia, he proved that a Catholic could win, even in a heavily Protestant state.
-
I read every biography of Jackie Kennedy I could get my hands on.
-
We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.
-
When President Kennedy set us on a path to the Moon in the 1960s, he knew exactly why - to produce a photo-op that would clearly show America would be the winner in the decades-long battle of political systems called the Cold War.
-
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
