L.A. Kennedy Quotes

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

If you never quit, youll never fail.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Speaking of prostitutes, big oil's top call girl Sen Inhofe wants to kill fuel economy backed by automakers, small biz, enviros, & consumers.

I don't even consider myself an environmentalist anymore. I'm a free-marketer. I go out into the marketplace and I catch the polluters who are cheating the free market.

Victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

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

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.

The tax system is stacked against the average taxpayer.

Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

Keep your tax-cutting, greedy hands off our medicare

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

Race has no place in American life or law.

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

Show me a man with a great golf game, and I’ll show you a man who has been neglecting something.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

We shall build on. On through the cynic

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

Canned food is a perversion,' Ignatius said. 'I suspect that it is ultimately very damaging to the soul.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people.