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President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating. -- Marilyn Monroe
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. -- Richard Dawkins
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. -- Jeffrey Toobin
I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard. -- Jack Canfield
It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work. -- Mike Honda
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes. -- Marian Wright Edelman
People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing. -- Muhammad Ali
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John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children. -- Kitty Kelley
I teach in the medical school, the School of Public Health, the Kennedy School of Government, and the Business School. And it's the best perch... because most of my work crosses boundaries. -- Michael Porter
John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. -- Camille Paglia
Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. -- Robert Dallek
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. -- Kevin Costner
To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire. -- Jim Garrison
The people who have impacted the world didn't live long. Martin Luther King. John F. Kennedy. These people who impact the world were not old people, but they lived so effectively that we cannot erase them from history. -- Myles Munroe
Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts. -- Jackie Speier
We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do. -- Eugene Cernan
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. -- Edwin Starr
We took care of Kennedy -- Sam Giancana
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy. -- Sam Brownback
The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party. -- Chris Matthews
Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon. -- Chris Rock
Live like the Kennedy's, above the law. -- Big Pun
My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy. -- Bob Gunton
["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling. -- Rob Lowe
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. -- Konrad Adenauer
Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy -- Evan Thomas
What TV was to John Kennedy, Facebook is to Obama. -- Daniel Lyons
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination. -- Vincent Bugliosi
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. -- J. Paul Getty
It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why. -- Jim Garrison
Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived. -- Sam Giancana
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. -- Hillary Clinton
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. -- Noam Chomsky
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands. -- Noam Chomsky
The key to success? Work hard, stay focused and marry a Kennedy. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow. -- Bob Schieffer
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Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans. -- Juan Williams
One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power. -- Scott Farris
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that. -- Jesse Ventura
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on. -- Natalie Portman
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education. -- Buzz Aldrin
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. -- Charles Evers
This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound. -- Paul Heyman
In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change. -- Sally Kirkland
Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator. -- Scott Farris
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection. -- Roy Moore
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. -- Salman Rushdie
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted. -- Tamara Feldman
Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail. -- Eartha Kitt
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson. -- Dylan Penn
Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid. -- Ronald Reagan
[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. -- Jeane Dixon
Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?, -- Cyril Wecht
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon. -- George Smathers
I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice. -- Amy Klobuchar
I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. -- Lloyd Bentsen
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information. -- Pierre Salinger
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era. -- Pierre Salinger
If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who? -- Tammara Webber
Splatter the brain matter of my enemies, with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy -- Canibus
Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. -- Mike Wallace
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill. -- Jim McGovern
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House -- Irwin Shaw
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had. -- David Powers
Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art. -- Mindy Kaling
Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane! -- Jim Cornette
... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism. -- Fidel Castro
I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. -- Harold MacMillan
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy. -- John Irving
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected. -- Malcolm X
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency. -- Dan Quayle
I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry, wrong meeting. -- Bill Hicks
You might be a redneck if your Momma would rather go the racetrack than the Kennedy Center. -- Jeff Foxworthy
We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television. -- Mike Pence
...one is reminded that [John Kerry, D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy, a richer Michael Dukakis. -- Laura Ingraham
You have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy! Kennedy hisses."And you have the chest of one. -- Emma Chase
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency. -- George W. Bush
While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly. -- Barry Goldwater
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. -- Robert Dallek
People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi. -- Emo Philips
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy -- Naomi Wolf
Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy. -- Robert Novak
Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat. -- Sally Bedell Smith
The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family. -- Mark Fuhrman
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. -- Pierre Salinger
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people. -- Roger Hilsman
The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state. -- W. A. Criswell
Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave, spilling his drink. -- Ann Coulter
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days. -- Rick Perlstein
That's right, you and God versus me, Vincent Kennedy McMahon, and the product of my semen, my son Shane! -- Vince McMahon
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is. -- Richard Dawkins
I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960. -- John Lewis
At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes. -- Charlie Pierce
George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes. -- Nina Easton
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody. -- Hedy Lamarr
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me. -- Pierre Salinger
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. -- Fidel Castro
Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much. -- Arlen Specter
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came. -- Gene Tierney
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social. -- Rush Limbaugh
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration. -- Birch Bayh
In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty. -- Vincent Bugliosi
Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not. -- Adam Clymer
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie. -- Pierre Salinger
Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy, -- Joe Biden
Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is. -- Lynda Resnick
Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need, and tens of millions of Americans have been the beneficiaries. -- Bernie Sanders
President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably. -- Clint Hill
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad? -- Lorna Luft
Soon after Marilyn died, I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'. -- Jane Russell
I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot. -- Neil Warnock
I made four films on John F. Kennedy, filmed when he was running for office, in office, and after his death. -- Robert Drew

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