Jack Kennedy Quotes

• I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

  Lloyd Bentsen

  Memorable, Senators, Mines

  Remark in vice-presidential debate, 5 Oct. 1988

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• I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.

  Dan Quayle

  Congress, Presidency

  Vice-presidential candidates' debate, October 5, 1988.

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• Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Secret, Trying, Said

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• 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

  Men, Odds, Knowing

  Source: capote.wordpress.com

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• 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

  Pain, Good Day, Sick

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• I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.

  Dick Gephardt

  Teacher, School, Law

  Source: patch.com

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• Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

  Robert Novak

  Political, Hart, Spectrum

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• 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

  Thinking, Optimism, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Girl, Bored, Evening

  "An American Dream". Book by Norman Mailer, 1965.

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• 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

  Night, America, Black

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• 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

  Father, Kids, Forever

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• 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

  Careers, Choices, Host

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• 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

  Differences, People, Newspapers

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.

  Jim Garrison

  Important, Knows

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• 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

  Dream, Men, Serious

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• I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.

  Gene Tierney

  Nature, Charm, Not Sure

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• 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

  War, Battle, President

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