Zitate und Sprüche von Joseph P. Kennedy

I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is "Ich bin ein Berliner."

Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

If anybody really wants to shoot the President of the United States, it is not a very difficult job - all one has to do is get a high building some day with a telescopic rifle, and there is nothing anybody could do to defend against such an attempt on the President's life.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.

Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.

Each time a man 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, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.

Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can achieve greatly.

You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

No one has ever been delighted to be in Boston in December. December? What are you excited about? "Oh, I love chapped lips and getting thrown up on by Patriots fans, how peachy."

Welcome to Boston, where the weather is made up and the seasons don't matter.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

Let's be honest: There's no better college town than Boston.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Everything about Boston is unique. It isn't one thing. Boston is its own deal.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.