- My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight. »
- It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. »
- Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. »
- Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. »
- To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America. »
- Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. »
- I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. »
- We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. »
- The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security. »
- Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. »
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