L.A. Kennedy Quotes

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

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

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.

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

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge.

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

I have come to believe, more strongly than ever, that after people die they really do live on through those who love them.

If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

I spent more time in a van then in my mom's womb.

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Although, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle….

Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent.

Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler. Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

Facts and credibility only support persuasion.

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I didn't want my music to be confused - even though I was and had a lot of questions. I wanted my music to capture a period in my life where I was sure.

Israel was not created in order to disappear. Israel will endure and flourish.

If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

There is no philosophy that will help us to succeed if we doubt our ability to do so.

The great free nations of the world must take control of our monetary problems if these problems are not to take control of us.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

As Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated, even a state of war is not a blank check for a president to do whatever he wants.

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!