 I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. |
| Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. |
| The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. |
| A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. |
| I'm an idealist without illusions. |
| If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. |
| We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. |
| The pay is good and I can walk to work. |
| The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy. |
| Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security. |
| No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. |
| When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses. |
| Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. |
| The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. |
| It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. |
| We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination. |
| I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic. |
| We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. |
| To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust. |
| Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. |
