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It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why. -- Jim Garrison
I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. -- Lloyd Bentsen
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. -- Dan Quayle
Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy. -- Robert Novak
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. -- Gene Tierney
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody. -- Hedy Lamarr
When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term. -- Gene Tierney
I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice. -- Phil Hartman
The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists. -- Ben Bradlee
I think Americans expect optimism in their leadership. The most popular and effective leaders, whether it was Bill Clinton or Ronald Reagan or Jack Kennedy, brought to it a sense of optimism and possibility. -- David Brooks
When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. -- James Ellroy
I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946.... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz. -- Norman Mailer
You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam. -- Alexander Haig
Really, an historic night last night. You may have heard, Barack Obama will be the first black president of the United States of America. ... Obama is also the first Democrat to receive more than 50 percent of the vote since Jimmy Carter, the first senator to be elected since Jack Kennedy, the first Muslim to be ... I said too much. -- Jon Stewart
Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. -- Mike Wallace
Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. -- Lloyd Bentsen
Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that. -- Pete Sessions
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. -- Truman Capote
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today. -- Rob Lowe
Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain. -- Sally Bedell Smith
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House. -- Gore Vidal
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." -- Chris Matthews
I remember someone once asked Jack Kennedy why he was paying such close attention to the renovation of the square across from the White House, and he said, 'It may be the only thing my presidency is remembered for.' -- Gloria Steinem
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. -- Mike Wallace

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