Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope.
John F. KennedyMothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. KennedyVoters are more than Catholics, Protestants or Jews. They make up their minds for many diverse reasons, good and bad. To submit the candidates to a religious test is unfair enough - to apply it to the voters is divisive, degrading and wholly unwarranted.
John F. KennedyAny system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive
John F. Kennedy