I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way.

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. Would you notify the telephone operators and everyone else that I'm to be known simply as Mrs. Kennedy and not as First Lady.

[On Hillary Rodham Clinton:] She always looks so adorable, and she's intrepid; she's the biggest bargain America ever got, bigger than that Louisiana Purchase from my French friends.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.

A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.