John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, and the Civil Rights Movement all took place...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth29 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
John F. Kennedy quotes about
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
[War] can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.
We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.
If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all.