John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain.

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.

The art of diplomacy is finding a reasonable route among imperfect alternatives.

JFK to RFK: To survive in politics, you sometimes have to be willing to make fun of yourself.

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Sometime, somewhere, life always comes to a fight, and peace always comes to an end.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

The outfield is solid, so is the catching and the infield.

Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent.

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

Would that I were the heaven, that I might be all full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee.

Your absence has gone through me