It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script because I along with Seth Green Jamie Kennedy and a few others have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'
Just imagine if in his inaugural address John F. Kennedy had said 'Ask not what your country can you know do for you but what you can like do for your country actually
We don't really know who killed Martin Luther King. We don't really know who killed Bobby Kennedy. We don't really know who killed John Kennedy. We don't really know who killed Tupac Shakur.
Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.
The disaster at the Bay of Pigs intensified Kennedy's doubts about listening to advisers from the CIA the Pentagon or the State Department who had misled him or allowed him to accept lousy advice.
If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years you reader would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's.
Kennedy was haunted by the Bay of Pigs invasion but carried the country through the Cuban Missile Crisis. He later increased the number of U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam to more than 16 000.
Clinton Kennedy they all carried out mass murder but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.
I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.
Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46 and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.
It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.
There were a lot of Romneys. There was the Romney who was ; going to be better on gay rights than Ted Kennedy; now there's the Romney who checks with Rick Santorum on that issue.
The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
I think of the Kennedy family and I think of their faith... Along came John F. Kennedy and a part of his legacy is that... he didn't just break the Catholic barrier he crushed it.
When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired it was first that he was tough. Second he told the truth and third he stood up for the little guy.
I'm old enough to remember John Kennedy sending a few advisers into Vietnam. I'm very worried we'll get in and we'll get mired down in something we don't have any idea what to do [with].
In my lifetime we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution I believe that in twelve years we'll be voting for plants.
Some Kennedy aides have always insisted that Johnson misread J.F.K.'s plans for Vietnam. They say that Kennedy had begun to rethink the U.S. presence in Indochina and was reluctant to increase it.
No Child Left Behind ... is a giraffe with an elephant's body. ... You can't take the vision of Ted Kennedy and merge it to the public policy of George Bush and come out with anything that works.
But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.
I think the public can t accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy. They don t want to believe the world is that chaotic. It is.
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
In college I won the Irene Ryan; it's kind of like a collegiate Tony which got my career going. I was honored. I won a fellowship to the Kennedy Center and that's where I got my agent.
I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy.
I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
In America people of a certain age ask 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' In my house you were more likely to be asked 'Where were you when you first read 'The Catcher In The Rye?
Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey you got to go to the program. We need you.
I knew who Jackie Kennedy was in terms of being the wife of JFK and being a clothes horse and I knew that she later married Onassis but I had a very very vague idea of who he was.
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.
I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't... I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1.4.
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.
I want to be the first. If they'd let me go to the moon I'd crawl all the way to Cape Kennedy just to do it. I'd like to go to the moon but I don't want to be the second man to go there.
Dear God please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that.'
I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris and I have enjoyed it.
[On John F. Kennedy:] ... now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man.
Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.
Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']
My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A. I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.
It's my name on the ballot and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not my grandfather and not my great-uncle and not President Kennedy.
President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.
I'm sure Obama is an atheist; I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination a Beatles breakup a U.S. defeat in Vietnam and a Watergate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We took care of Kennedy
I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.
Kennedy didn't beat Nixon. Satire beat Nixon.
Live like the Kennedy's above the law.
My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy
What TV was to John Kennedy Facebook is to Obama.
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived.
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
In 1962 war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
The key to success? Work hard stay focused and marry a Kennedy.
I guess the worst snow was the Kennedy inauguration in 1960. Heavy snow.
It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy's assassination.
Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.
One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and J.F Kennedy were Presidents in very different times.
I believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John Kennedy. I believe that.
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.
When President Kennedy took office I was in the midst of my education.
I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound.
In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy I think they did affect change.
Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.
I know Dr. Kennedy and I know Coral Ridge Ministries. I have no connection.
It's Kennedy's war Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak but it's Kennedy's war.
I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
Dallas is where Kennedy was shot and that's where I was put in jail.
My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
Bobby Kennedy is so concerned with poverty because he didn't have any as a kid.
[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22 1963:] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today.
Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?
Kennedy was a lot of fun always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
I knew Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator you're no Jack Kennedy.
President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.
There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
If someone had asked "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered "Who?
Splatter the brain matter of my enemies with the same bullet trajectory that murdered John Kennedy
Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was and we attended the same neighborhood school.
I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met and the best friend I ever had.
Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure I feel like a work of art.
Ladies & Gentelman the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating Sweet Stan Lane!
... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.
I was a sort of son to Ike and it was the other way round with Kennedy.
I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.
[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.
I have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency.
I love talking about Kennedy assassination...a great archetypal example of how totalitarian government...sorry wrong meeting.
You might be a redneck if your Momma would rather go the racetrack than the Kennedy Center.
We had a picture of the pope and President [J.F.] Kennedy on top of the television.
...one is reminded that [John Kerry D-MA] really just a better-looking Ted Kennedy a richer Michael Dukakis.
You have the maturity of a 14-year-old boy! Kennedy hisses."And you have the chest of one.
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.
While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important the question 'what killed him' is more important.
I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why then I'd fit in perfectly.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
People always ask me 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well I don't have an alibi.
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy
Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.
Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded "It was involuntary. They think my boat.
The Skakel family when they married into the Kennedys was so wealthy they could have purchased the Kennedy family.
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover an obvious sign he also had some himself.
Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial essentially nationalist movement feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.
The election of John F Kennedy will lead to the death of a free church and a free state.
Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has got to have Ted Kennedy rolling over in his grave spilling his drink.
There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.
That's right you and God versus me Vincent Kennedy McMahon and the product of my semen my son Shane!
I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.
At the time of his death John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.
George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons not heroes.
Jack Kennedy always said to me Hedy get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
Jackie Kennedy was magnificent in the days and weeks immediately following her husband's assassination. She was especially wonderful to me.
Were Kennedy not a millionaire illiterate and ignorant then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
Whatever my party affiliation I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm but he took life just as it came.
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture both political and social.
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
In the [John F.] Kennedy case I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty.
Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick and he may not.
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy
Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.
Ted Kennedy devoted his lifetime to protecting those most in need and tens of millions of Americans have been the beneficiaries.
President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us but not as many as President Kennedy probably.
The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
Soon after Marilyn died I met Bobby Kennedy and he looked at me as if to say: 'I am your enemy'.
I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.
I made four films on John F. Kennedy filmed when he was running for office in office and after his death.
The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains to me an unsolved crime.
You know at parties people always ask 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well I don't have an alibi!
John Kennedy won the first televised presidential debate among those watching it while Richard Nixon won among those listening on the radio.
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
The last time I saw Robert Kennedy was in an elevator by accident also going up one week before he was shot.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Senator I served with Jack Kennedy I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator you're no Jack Kennedy.
Jackie [Kennedy] wore one of my dresses â?? it was made from kitchen curtain material â?? and people went crazy.
It is not plausible for Patrick Kennedy to do something to get the FBI to change the State Department investigation this is crazy.
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.
One of the problems with a candidate like Bob Kennedy and his brother before him was that people assumed they didn't need contributions.
It is galling to see such mendacious hypocrites as Kennedy and Biden at the Senate Judiciary Committee sitting in judgment on distinguished jurists.
President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.
When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy
In those days the late 1970s one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger named Ted Kennedy.
Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook.
Vietnam really more accurately Laos was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61 foreign problem.
I think Kennedy being assassinated changed the world. That shot changed everything about America and made us cynical made people discontent and angry.
My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time Republican and Democrat because of this great country.
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.
I am going to build the kind of nation that President Roosevelt hoped for President Truman worked for and President Kennedy died for.
Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others the personal lives do come into play and people do judge you for that.
The people I really most admire are Robert Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt. If you know someone it is very hard to revere them.
[John F.Kennedy] liked fresh company new people to come visit and then leave. ... I think he liked the protection of numbers too.
I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
Ted Kennedy is endorsing John Kerry and I'm wondering do you really want the endorsement of a guy with a Bloody Mary mustache?
I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.
They can gas me but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
I came to political consciousness with John F. Kennedy's magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It seemed the start of something fresh and exciting and it was.
When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon the question wasn't whether we'd get there it was only when we'd get there.
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy.
The front line with ISIS isn't just in Iraq and Syria it's in Kennedy Airport and the Rio Grande. Border security is national security.
I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.
Ginnifer Goodwin said it very well - we're not doing the Hall Of Presidents at Disneyland. This is my interpretation of [J.F] Kennedy.
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.
Ted Kennedy's achievements as a senator have towered over his time changing the lives of far more Americans than remember the name Mary Jo Kopechne.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.
I have three favorite politicians: Reagan Truman and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
Fortunately President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.
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.
The grand jury composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy.
Declassified papers report that John Kennedy was taking eight different medications a day. He was so wasted his Secret Service code name was Ted Kennedy.
One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics image-doctoring stage management and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.
The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave probably spilling his drink.
I think I've drawn from some of the most feminine women like Jackie Kennedy. I am totally devastated that she's gone. She had it all.
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.
One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
I had been in so many towns and cities in America with John Kennedy but I was not with him in Dallas Texas on November 21 1963.
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.
I just find Bobby Kennedy's short campaign for president so inspiring because his rhetoric identified what America can be like if we care about each other.
From the moment he took office in January of 1961 Kennedy had been eager to settle the Cuban problem without overt military action by the United States.
Medicare getting through that in the '60s after Kennedy's assassination where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.
There was the Missile Crisis but one can't attribute to the [J.F.] Kennedy years anything like the problems that [Franklin] Roosevelt stood over and surmounted.
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.
Every year since 1990 the Gallup poll has asked Americans to assess all the presidents since John F. Kennedy. And every year Kennedy comes out on top.
Quotes from Mao Castro and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No.
The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev.
Robert Kennedy identified with people not data or institutions or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him not a manila folder full of statistics.
The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
I've been a fascinated observer of grand public funerals since I was a kid starting with the life-altering black-and-white images of President John F. Kennedy's funeral.
Somebody had fired a shot at the President and I had to get myself between the shooter and the President and Mrs. Kennedy. Nothing else mattered.
[John F. Kennedy] was Arthur the guy in the middle of the room with all the swords pointed at him. ... He wanted control of the situation.
Ted Kennedy will go down in history as one of the giants of the U.S. Senate and one the most accomplished legislators in American history.
Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?
So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches unfulfilled hopes the wondering about what might have been.
Kennedy lied and lied about his health while he was alive even using his father's influence to get into the Navy without ever taking a medical examination.
Within twenty years he was the world's biggest movie star the husband of Maria Shriver and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.
I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)
There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.
Originally John Kennedy was going to come speak and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62 neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis.
John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.
Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.
But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous petty and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled unintelligent demagogue.
The thing that makes [Bob] Kennedy so good is that he doesn't have a fear of losing. He was willing to go to Europe and get hammered.
Unlike the Kennedy dynasty who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble the Windsors can't bring themselves to part with any royal trinkets.
I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.
The difference between Carter and [Ted] Kennedy: Carter has this vague religion which he believes in strongly while Kennedy has this strong religion which he believes in vaguely.
The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us as Franklin Roosevelt did as Teddy Roosevelt did as John F. Kennedy did as Ronald Reagan did.
Some presidents such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy are political sailors - they tack with the wind reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver President Kennedy's sister endorsed Arnold Schwarzenegger said he's not a womanizer. Of course by Kennedy standards that means he never drove one off a bridge.
Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.
I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch but he was opposed by the liberal establishment too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.
Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962 do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?
The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
All his life he [Robert Kennedy] had been schooled that nothing was worse than to finish second. But crushing fears are no longer so crushing once they are experienced.
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991 I was looking for a book subject and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
For style and for creating a mood of optimism and hope - Kennedy on that count is as effective as any president the country has had in its history.
In America politicians do whatever to get re-elected and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina you're treated as royalty. And in the United States we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
A white male Mormon millionaire was not gonna beat Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts but someone deserved to go out there and give him a real run for his money.
Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter a lively brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.
I know that our country is strongest when we lead the world when we lead strong alliances. And that's the way Eisenhower and Reagan and Kennedy and others did it.
It [his brothers assassination] made Robert Kennedy a man unprepared for introspection think for the first time in his life what he wanted to do and what he stood for.
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.
I worked in the Senate in the 1970s. I worked for the Labor Public Welfare Committee and we had Ted Kennedy and my old boss Bill Hathaway and Walter Mondale.
I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism uh Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.
[John F. Kennedy] kept a diary and in the White House dictated his thoughts. He felt real guilt at the killing of [Ngo Dinh] Diem the leader of South Vietnam.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture and the wild bats flapped out.
Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come uplift us in the healthcare fight and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.
Media runs the world and it all changed I think when the debate between Kennedy and Nixon happened and first of all we saw them on television and that changed everything.
Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.
So I think that Marilyn what she gave the world and in many ways Kennedy too was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
President Kennedyâ??s assassination less than two weeks ago has struck the world dumb. Itâ??s like no one wants to be the first to break the silence. Nothing seems important.
Laurel and Hardy that's John and Yoko. And we stand a better chance under that guise because all the serious people like Martin Luther King and Kennedy and Gandhi got shot.
When sudden death takes a president opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic as they were when President Kennedy was killed.
He's not just the most powerful man in labor " Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country next to the President.
In 1962 President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.
I respect the Kennedy family. I respect their service. They do a tremendous amount of good. You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.
You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
I always tell people you know [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic and I thought so maybe I could someday try do what he did.
We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.
Will I die slain like my King by a terrorist? Will my woman be Coretta take my name and cherish it? Or will she Jackie O. drop the Kennedy remarry it?
I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose mother did everything to protect her from the prying press.
President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.
There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon leaving the planet for the first time and fortunately coming back.
Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal
John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill it's on your kids and grandkids.
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara who is a good businessman and likes to save says it would be only 200 million.
In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost Ted Kennedy once said "Frankly I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
There is no inherent power in the office of the vice presidency. Zero. None. It's all a reflection of your relationship with the president. I mean Kennedy never let Johnson in the office.
A Ted Kennedy John Kerry John Edwards Howard Dean George Soros or Al Gore looks - no acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.