Kennedy Quotes

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink.

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.

I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama.

Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.

I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier, he crushed it.

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.

I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.

We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.

I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.

Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.

I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.

I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.

I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy. The odds against that-one person knowing all four of those men-must be astounding.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are

It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Ask not what your country can do for you

Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose

Writing is the one thing I know I will never grow tired of in life

It must have really not liked me, but I can't imagine why, don't say anything Amelia."Amelia shrugged her shoulders, "It liked me the first time."Otto smirked, "Well I have no idea why.

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.

Sometimes moving forward changes what's behind you.

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies

I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.

I've always regarded it as a test of character to dislike the Kennedys. I don't really respect anyone who falls for Camelot.