Quotes About Leadership

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.

Petra Kelly is my inspiration, one of the founders of the German Greens.

Chip Kelly, he is a great guy.

We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone, it is very hard to revere them.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

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

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy, and his brother before him, was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.

It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.

Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that.

I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting, and it was.

I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

From the moment he took office in January of 1961, Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.

The Kennedys are our royals.

I could be like Joe Kennedy and say, 'My kids are going to run for president!'

Bill Clinton told me that when he was 14, he shook John Kennedy's hand, and that inspired him to be president.

I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

Joe Kennedy was a massive figure on all kinds of levels.

I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.

Some people saw Bobby Kennedy as ruthless. I'm sure he did not see himself as ruthless.