Kennedy Quotes

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

Civility is not a sign of weakness.

Lets talk to one another instead of about one another.

A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others.

Prostitutes don't sell their bodies, they rent their bodies. Housewives sell their bodies when they get married.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judiciary, judges who can make decisions independent of the political winds that are blowing.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

For anyone to achieve something, he will have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got.

Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

I'm extremely proud of my family's record of public service to Massachusetts and the nation.

For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.