#kennedy

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy. ↗

— James Ellroy

#accent #been #eisenhower #everything #father

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. ↗

— Richard Reeves

#alive #even #ever #examination #father

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. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#democratic #democratic party #democrats #franklin #franklin roosevelt

It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the people who came in contact with them. They were a unit. ↗

— Charles Spalding

#came #contact #feeling #had #heightened

To err is human. To errah is Kennedy. ↗

— James DeAcutis

#crooks #drunk #kennedy-family #family

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#making-a-difference-in-the-world #robert-f-kennedy #inspirational

He shrugged, working to make her understand. “There’s whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don’t take credit for it. My mom’s been paying a trainer for years. Oh, and my six-pack won a Fan’s Choice Award called the SixPackAttack. Three years running. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#unmaking-hunter-kennedy #music

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#disgusted #former #i #kennedys #me

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#dead #doing #kennedys #marketing #spirit