Quotes About Kennedy

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging.

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

It was very sad to hear that… After the car Kennedy was in… it hesitated and stopped there for a second or two… I

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

I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

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

I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.

The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.

I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America, and made us cynical, made people discontent and angry.

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

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

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.

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

I was born outside Kennedy Space Center.

My son plays guitar, and he's been at the Kennedy Center.

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

Listen, I'm a proud Democrat. My heroes are the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King. And I don't apologize for that and never will.

As he rounded Kennedy Street, he began to chant to himself a poem that he had heard once, he wasn't sure where. "That love is all there is; is all we know of love. It is enough; the freight should be proportioned to the groove.

And Americans were—before the Vietnam War, before the Iraq wars—the darlings of everyone everywhere. On a second world trip a decade later, on which I took students for academic credit, the most treasured gift we could give was a John F. Kennedy half-dollar. There

There have been two periods in my lifetime when the excitement of government and of public issues drew to Washington many of the bright young people graduating from colleges and law schools. These were essentially the Roosevelt and the Kennedy years.

The Kennedy assassination is one of the ghostliest parts of our history. The Kennedy family - that's our royalty. It's fascinating and tragic and just strikes to the heart of our country. Here's the youngest president ever, full of hope and promise, and he made government service seem like it was dignified.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Kennedy's issue didn't seem to be that she had been in jail, but that she had put on weight in jail. The food had been crappy, she'd told me, and it has been high on the carbohydrate count. But I'm an emotional eater, she'd said, as if that were a terrible thing. And I was real emotional in jail.