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I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.


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JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...
JOHN F. KENNEDY If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he mus...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the Un...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make...
JOHN F. KENNEDY There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some m...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a natio...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknow...
JOHN F. KENNEDY War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The human mind is our fundamental resource.
JOHN F. KENNEDY For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their ch...
JOHN F. KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents dan...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon an...
JOHN F. KENNEDY Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all c...
JOHN F. KENNEDY A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what i...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The best road to progress is freedom's road.
JOHN F. KENNEDY The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is...
JOHN F. KENNEDY We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A child miseducated is a child lost.
JOHN F. KENNEDY We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. ...
JOHN F. KELLY Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F. KENNEDY The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
JOHN F. KENNEDY A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
JOHN F. KENNEDY Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-st...
JOHN F. KELLY The one thing I was always told is you absolutely have to tell truth to power. Whether you're a ...
JOHN F. KELLY Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of charac...
JOHN F. KELLY We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the ...
JOHN F. KENNEDY It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
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