L.A. Kennedy Quotes

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.

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.

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.

Everything changes but change itself.

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources.

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

You can't dump one cup of sugar into the ocean and expect to get syrup. If everybody sweetened her own cup of water, then things would begin to change.

Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Sedentary people are apt to have sluggish minds. A sluggish mind is apt to be reflected in flabbiness of body and in a dullness of expression that invites no interest and gets none.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt.

We need election reform because our elections are being stolen. And these huge powerful voting machine vending companies have privatized the election process in our country.

First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

Procrastination is a sign of a perfectionist.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.

Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death.

Democracy is the superior form of government, because it is based on a respect for man as a reasonable being.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

He may be president, but he still comes home and swipes my socks.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

The pay is good and I can walk to work.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.