John F. Kennedy Quotes About Politics
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A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
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No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.
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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.
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My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
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Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.
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I'm an idealist without illusions.
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Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.
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Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
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Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
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My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
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Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.
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Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
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A rising tide (in the economy) lifts all boats.
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I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
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I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.
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I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
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I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.
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John F. Kennedy
- Born: May 29, 1917
- Died: November 22, 1963
- Occupation: 35th U.S. President
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