L.A. Kennedy Quotes
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.
The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.
When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.
Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.
The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.
If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.
Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.
I grew up always admiring business owners. I was always interested in knowing who pulled what strings. I've always been in love with the decision making process, not just the product.
The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity for progress toward nuclear disarmament.
I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us.
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.
Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell.
No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.
Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.