C. Kennedy Quotes

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.

The river of sludge will go on and on. It isn't about me.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.

Life is not only knowing what you want but what you'll settle for.

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.

A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.

Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder

The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

A newspaper reported I spend $30,000 a year buying Paris clothes and that women hate me for it. I couldn't spend that much unless I wore sable underwear.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks, and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move

Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

Don't agonize, organize.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

It's better to send in the Peace Corps than the Marine Corps.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

Anger makes people stupid.

The Jewish people, ever since David slew Goliath, have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership.

It's much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man

Mother went out again tonight, looking like a courtesan.

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world.

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?

Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation.