L.A. Kennedy Quotes

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.

Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames.

They all have in common that they are bacteria caused by bowel and feces.

It's no use to worry about what people think. I never do. I used to. But when I saw that they'd really rather think wrong than right I gave it up.

Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

In elite, primarily white institutions, there are many blacks who have white wives. So much so that sometimes there is almost the assumption that I would be married to a white woman.

I was born in Columbia in 1954, the year the Supreme Court invalidated racial segregation in public schools. I visited frequently but did not live there.

Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

In poetry, only emotion endures.

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me.

In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular.

The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

I'm not as shy as everybody makes me out to be.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

The Army damages itself when it doesn't live up to its own values.

In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

Health care is a right, not a privilege.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

The more our feelings diverge, the more deeply felt they are, the greater is our obligation to grant the sincerity and essential decency of our fellow citizens on the other side.

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.

I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.

Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.

I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.

But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.

What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.

I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good.

The fact that we live in a world that moves crisis by crisis does not make a growing interest in outdoor activities frivolous, or ample provision for them unworthy of the nation's concern.

There comes a point where you see no evidence that the carrot and diplomacy are working.

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

The Beatles are a classical group because they're classic.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.