John F. Kennedy Quotes About Parties

• It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Party, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

• Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Loyalty, Party

  "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House". Book by Arthur Jr. M. Schlesinger, p. 26, 1979.

• Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Long, Choices

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

• I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Hymns, Political

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

• The Republican nominee-to-be, of course, is also a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party of the past. His speeches are generalities from Poor Richard's Almanac. Their platform, made up of left-over Democratic planks, has the courage of our old convictions. Their pledge is a pledge to the status quo-and today there can be no status quo.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Men, Past

• Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Zest, Ideas

• History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these.

  John F. Kennedy

  Loyalty, Party, Government

  Address to a Joint Convention of the General Court of, delivered 9 January 1961

• I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Taken, Risk

  Democratic National Convention Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles

• In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Men, Generosity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.469, Best Books on

• I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Elephants, Nuts

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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